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0.\E Hl'NDKKU AM) riFTIETH 



ANNIVERSARY OF THE SETTLEMENT 



BOSCAWKN AND WEBSTET{ 



MERRTAr^VCIv CO.. N. H.. 



AUGUST 16, 1883, 



BIRTHS RECORDED ON THE TOWN RECORDS 



I^S.024: 1733 TO leSO. 



CONCORD. N. H.: 

PRINTED BY THE REPUBLICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION. 

1884. 



lAiii.i-; ni io\ri;\rs. 



Preliminary, and m. - iiiiL;s of the committer . 3-7 

Invitations and programme . 9-'' 

Morning of the day. and meeting on site of Old Fort 1 3 

Memorial service at the cemeterv 14 

Address of Hon. John Kimball i^>-20 

Reply of John C. Pearson, chairman, for the towns ;i 

Address of welcome, by Nathaniel S Webster 24 

Address of Charles C. Coffin ->-47 

Address of Rev Arthur Little, U. I) 1S-5.S 

Speech of Rev Samuel C Hartlctt, I). I) . LL. I). 59-^3 

Address of Hon. Stephen M. Allen f^-C/) 

Address of Hon. Henry P. Roll'- '•'>-7o 

Poem, by Rev. Frank Hairs 71 

Congratulatory letters ~^-<}0 

Report of the treasurei 91 

Correction in regard to Thomas .M. and Charles A. Lang 93 

Kirths recorded in the town records— 1733-1850 95-1S4 

proprietors' records 185 

Miographical sketch of Charles Hubbard Amsden 187-189 

Samuel Colcord Itartlett . 189, 190 

Charles Carleton Coffin . 190-194 

•* '• Enoch Gcrrish . 195, 196 

Kzra .Sheldon Harris . 196, 197 

John Kimball . 197-201 

Benjamin Ames Kimball . ::o 1-203 

William Smith Kimball . 203, 204 

Arthur Little . . . 205, 2c/) 

Ephraim Plummer 207 

Henry Pearson Rolfe ... 20R-211 

Pul)lication of proceedings and agreement 213 



LIST OF PORTRAITS. 



Charles Hubbard Anisden 
Samuel Colcord Bartlett 
Charles Carleton Coffin 
Enoch Gerrish . 
Ezra Sheldon Harris 
John Kimball . 
Benjamin Ames Kimball 
William Smith Kimball 
Arthur Little . 
Ephraim Plummer 
Henry Pearson Rolfe 



Opposite page 
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196 

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201 
203 

48 
207 

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PRELIM I\ A k\'. 



In th(' month of Uecember, 1882, Charles C. 
Coffin, of Ik)ston. meeting by chance Isaac K. Gage, 
of Pcnacook. at tlie railroatl cle|)ot. remarked that the 
year 1SS3 would number the 150th since the settle- 
ment of the tf»\vn of Hoscawen. It was suggested 
that a town with a histor)' so marked as that of Hos- 
cawen. which hat! sent forth so many men of high 
intellectual attainments and lofty character. shouUl 
commemorate its 150th anniversar)". The proposi- 
tion was so hi-artily concurreil in by th(.' citizens, 
when presented by Mr. Gage, that in lubruary, 
1SS3. the following article was inserted in the war- 
rant for calling the annual town-meeting: 

"To see if the town will vote to have a celebration 
the ensuing )ear, aiul, if so. to see what sum of 
money the town will raise for th(; purpose, and to 
choose the necessary rominiltee to carr\" out the 
same." 

At the meeting of the town, the following vote 
was passed : 

"To raise the sum of $300; and the selectmen are 
instructed to appoint a committee to make all neces- 
sary arrangements. " 

The following committee was appointed : 



Nehemiah Butler, Isaac K. Gage, Nathaniel S. 
Webster, Charles W. Webster, Frank L. Gerrish, 
Peter Coffin, and Samuel B. Chadwick, of Boscawen ; 
Sherman Little, William W. Burbank, Moody A. 
Pillsbury, and Henry H, Gerrish, of Webster. 

MEETINGS OF THE COMMITTEE. 

April 14, 1883, the members of the committee, 
excepting H. H. Gerrish, met at the town hall in 
Boscawen, agreeable to previous notice. 

Meeting was called to order by the chairman, N. 
Butler, Esq., and Isaac K. Gage was chosen secre- 
tary. 

Remarks were made by Butler, Gage, C. W. Web- 
ster, and Sherman Little. 

Letters were read from C. C. Coffin, Esq. 

On motion of Peter Coffin, Voted that the cele- 
bration take place August 23, 1883. 

Made choice of Frank L. Gerrish as treasurer for 
the committee. 

Voted that there be a committee of five, — three 
from Boscawen and two from Webster, — to report 
the order of exercises for the occasion at an ad- 
journed meeting. 

N. S. Webster. F. L. Gerrish, Isaac K. Gaee. 
Sherman Little, and W. W. Burbank were appointed 
said committee. 

Voted that a committee of three be chosen to see 
what can be done by the citizens of the town, and 
others interested, to assist in furnishing supplies, 
etc., for the occasion. 



Messrs. C. W. Webster. S. B. Chadwick, and M. 
A. Pillsbur)- were chosen. 

Adjourned to May 5, at 2 o'clock i'. >[., to meet at 
the town hall. 

May 5. met according to adjournment. 

Pn-scnt. \. .S. Webster. C. W. Webster. Gage 
Coffin. I*". L. (jerrisii. Little. Burbank. and Chadwick. 

In absence of Judge Butler, made choice of C. W. 
Webster as chairman pro ttm. 

After some remarks, voted to adjourn at the call 
of the chairman. 

May 19. 1SS3. met according to notice from the 
chairman, at the town hall, at 2 i*. m. 

IVesirnt. Messrs. lUitler. C. W. Webster. X. S. 
Webster, IVrtt-r Coffin. I*". L. Gerrish. (iage. and Lit- 
tle, of the committee, and C. C. Coffin, of Boston — 
Judge Butler in the chair. 

Remarks were made by C. C. Luinn. ami by sev- 
eral members of the committee. 

On motion, voted to change the time from August 
23 to October. 1S83. providing suitable speakers for 
the occasion could be obtained. 

The following committees were appointed : 

On Invitatioti. Riccpdon, etc., — Isaac K. Gage. N. 
S. Webster, I b-nr) 11. ( icrrish, and Peter Coffin. 

0)i Preparation, Dinner, Music, and Place — 
Messrs. I'. I.. (;<Trish, W. W. Burbank. .S. B. Chad- 
wick. C. \\". Webster. Sherman Little, and M. A. 
Pillsbury. 

Voted to adjourn at the call of the chairman. 



June 30, 1883, met agreeable to previous no- 
tice. 

Present, Messrs. Gage, F. L, Gerrish, N. S. Web- 
ster, Pillsbury, H. H. Gerrish, and S. B. Chadwick. 

Sherman Little was chosen chairman p7'0 tent. 

Being unable to procure the services of Rev. 
Arthur Little, of Chicago, and C. C. Coffin, Esq., of 
Boston, as speakers for the occasion at the time 
before named (October 3, 1883), 3-fter remarks by 
several members of the committee it was voted to 
rescind the vote fixing the time at October 3. 

On motion, it was voted to hold it August 16, 
1883, so as to accommodate Messrs. Little, Coffin, 
and others, who could be present at that time. 

C. W. Webster having resigned as member of the 
committee, Samuel Choate was appointed by the 
selectmen to fill the vacancy. 

Voted to adjourn at the call of the chair. 

August 25, 1883, met according to previous no- 
tice. 

Present, Messrs. N. S. Webster, Gage, F. L. Ger- 
rish, and Peter Coffin. 

In consequence of the death of Judge Butler, N. 
S. Webster was chosen chairman. 

Voted thanks to Mrs. Abial R. Chandler, of 
Lawrence, Mass., and Enoch P. Corser, of Nashua, 
for the several amounts given to aid the committee 
in settling any deficiences there might be in the 
treasury. 

Voted to adjourn to Saturday evening, September 
I, 1883, ^t town hall. 



September i, 1883, met accordino- to adjournment. 

Report of the treasurer was called for, after read- 
ing of which it showed a deficiency of $25.69, and 
said amount was due the treasurer, which amount 
was paid into the treasury as follows : 

N. S. Webster, I. K. Gage, S. Choate, J. C. Pear- 
son, S. B. Chadwick, Peter Coffin, and F. L. Gerrish, 
the sum of $3.67 each. 

Voted to adjourn sine die. 



I X \' rr AT loxs 



The Committee on Invitatif)ns issued the following 
card : 

•' I he one hundred and fiftieth anniversar)' of 
the s(^ttlement of I^oscawen will be celebrated Au- 
gust 1 6th. i8S;^, on which occasion all the sons and 
daughters and their descendants, and former resi- 
dents, will be welcomed home. A reply is expected 
from each person receiving this invitation. 

ISA.VC K. Ci.u;K, 
N. S. Wkhstkr. 
HiNkv \\. Gkrhish, 
pKTKk Coffin. 
Committee of Invitation ^ 

It was discovered that the sons and daughters of 
the town were widely scattered, some in Maine, more 
in Massachusetts, some in X'ermont, others in Con- 
necticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania. Ohio, upon 
the prairies of Indiana and Illinois, in the far North- 
West, and around the golden gate of the Pacific 
shore. Many were the responses expressing the 
intention to be present on this notable occasion, 
or sincerely regretting that they could not revisit on 
that day the dear old towns that gave them birth. 



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It was apparent that the church would accommo- 
date but a small portion of those who signified their 
intention of being- present, and a spacious tent was 
provided, of area sufficient to shelter several thou- 
sand persons. Settees were also obtained, that the 
audience might enjoy with comfort the exercises of 
the day. 

Citizens of Boscawen and Webster dispensed lib- 
eral hospitality, welcoming from afar their old-time 
friends. Housewives and maidens gave willing ser- 
vice in preparing for the event. 

Under the direction of Prof. John Jackman, the 
singers of both towns rehearsed choice music during 
the week preceding the celebration. 



Nathaniel S. Webster was appointed president of 
the day, John C. Pearson chief marshal, and Edgar 
Raymond, George E. Kimball, Roscoe S. Boyce, and 
Josiah Flanders, assistant marshals. 

The following order of exercises was prepared : 



I I 

THK ONK IlLNDkKI) AND FIFTIKTII .\NM\ KK.sAKN 

i>F TIIK 

sett]j:mi:x'I' oi- boscawen. 



Aur.irsT 16, 1883. 



(;RD1:K UF EXICKCISES. 

FORK NOON. 

Meet at the old Fort near the Messrs. (iill. at 1 1 \. m. 

Mlsic hv iHi; Hand. 

March to the Cemetery n\ here the tirst Chiirclj was locateil. 

Presentation of Memorial hy n«)n. John Kimball, of" Concord. 

Response for the town by J. C. Pearson, Esq. 

Pkavku. 

Hymn hy tiik Aidiknck. 

March in procession to the town hall, where a collation will be 

served. 



.AKTKkNooX. 

Music by tiik Ciioiii. 

Welcome by N. Hutler. President of the Day. 

Misic. 

Phayer. 

Historical Address by C. C. Coffin, of Boston. 

Mrsic. 

Address by Rev. Arthur Little. :i. i>.. of Chicago. 

Mrsa. 

Atldress by President Bartlctt, of Hanover. 

Poem by Rev. Frank Halcv. of Boscawen. 

Short addresses by other persons. 

DOXOI.OGY. 
BENEr>ICTION'. 

1. C Pearson, Chief Marshal. 



Tin: DAW 



The cLi) \v;is auspicious. The sk\-. which tor main- 
weeks had glowed wiili summer licat. was overcast 
with clouds, not wholly obscuring the sun, but tem- 
pering its burning rays. At an early morning hour 
the citizens, th(Mr wives, sons, and (.laughters, were 
at work making the last preparations. In the town 
hall, the ladies were |)reparing a munificent rei)ast. 
Around the tent a volunteer committee of gentle- 
men sliceil baskets full of beef. ham. and tongue. 
From the steaming cauldrons and k(!ttles came the 
aroma of l^^iling coffee. ()th<r grnilcmen arranged 
settees, flung the stars and strijnrs to the breeze, and 
performed the last duties incident to the occasion. 

At an early hour came long processions of car- 
riages from Salisbury. I'Vanklin. Northfield. Canter- 
bury. Concord, and Hopkinton. — citizens of all atl- 
joining towns coming to accept the large! hosjjitality 
and enjoy the pleasures of a holiday. — stabling their 
horses by the fences of the highway and in the 
adjoining fields. The mt^rni ng train on the North- 
ern Railroad l)rought its complement of visitors from 
I'Vanklin. Bristol. Lebanon, and intermediate stations. 
The express train from Boston, lengthened by many 
cars, brought guests and visitors from Boston, Low- 



ell, Nashua, Lawrence, Manchester, and Concord. 
Through the courtesy of the railroad officials, the 
train was stopped at the pathway leading down to 
the railroad from the site of the Old Fort, where the 
guests were met by the marshals and the Hopkinton 
Cornet Band, and escorted to the residence of Mr. 
Gill, the first framed house erected in Boscawen, by 
Rev. Robie Morrill, the second minister of the town. 

MEMORIAL SERVICE AT THE CEMETERY. 

The first transaction by the proprietors of the 
plantation of Contoocook was the selection of a site 
for their meeting-house, — a knoll in the cemetery on 
King street. In the historical address, further on, 
will be seen what the meeting-house was in their esti- 
mation. It will also be seen that the Boscawen meet- 
ing-house has ever been a remarkable beacon light, 
throwing its radiant beams far and wide. That the 
site of an institution of such far-reaching influence 
might be forever preserved, several gentlemen, for- 
mer residents, united, at the suggestion of Mr. Chas. 
C. Coffin, of Boston, in setting up a fitting memorial 
stone. 

The assembled company, under the escort of the 
band, proceeded to the cemetery, where a platform 
had been erected, by the side of which stood a beam 
(a timber in the first meeting-house), which, upon 
the demolition of the house, about 1775, was framed 
into the barn of Mr. Daniel Carter, and which was 
cut out by its present owner, Mr. Lyssias Emerson, 
to add to the interest of the occasion. 



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The memorial stone, of Concord granite, stands 
probably upon the spot once occupied by the pul- 
pit of the meeting-house, beside the grave of Dea. 
Isaac Pearson, who. according to tradition, expressed 
the desire in his last hours to be buried where the 
pulpit once stood, thus giving his testimon\ to the 
efficiency and inlluence of the first minister. 

Upon a brass plate embedded on the southern face 
is the inscription : 

riRST mi:etimj-iiui Si: 



iujscA\\i:\. 

Built 

On this stot 1739 : 
l'si:i> LNTii. 17^17. 

This stoMC cicctctl ix^;^ 



John Kimball, 
Enoch Gerrish, 
Charles C. Coffin. 
HcMJarnin A. Kimball. 
Arthur Little. 
Moses G. Farmer. 
Charles H. Amsden. 
Charles 1 1 . Aiucs. 

The assembly was called to order by the chief 
marshal, and prayer was offered by Rev. Arthur Lit- 
tle, I). i>., of Chicago. In behalf of the donors, Hon. 
John Kimball, of Concord, presented the memorial to 
the town. 



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ADDRESS OF HON. JOHN KIMBALL. 

Gentlemen of the Board of Selectmen, and Citizens of 
Boscawen : 

It is well authenticated by history and tradition, that 
as early as 1733 the original proprietors of Contoo- 
cook set apart the lot of land here enclosed as a suit- 
able place in the plantation for the meeting-house,^ 

The piece of timber exhibited here on this occa- 
sion was taken from the log meeting-house built where 
this large assembly is congregated to-day.^ 

More than one hundred and fifty years ago the 
colonies of Massachusetts Bay granted to several 
persons, inhabitants of the town of Newbury, Massa- 
chusetts, the tract of land, seven miles square, situate 
on the west bank of the Merrimack river, adjoining 
Penny Cook plantation in New Hampshire. One of 
the conditions of this grant was, that the proprietors 
should build a convenient meeting-house, and settle 
a learned and orthodox minister within four years. 
Before the erection of the meeting-house religious 
services were held in the town-house, or in private 
dwellings.^ At a meeting of the proprietors, held at 
Contoocook (the name given to the "plantation") 
6 September, 1738, "It was voted there should be a 
meeting-house built at the plantation aforesaid of 
forty feet long, and of the same width of Rumford 

1 Prop. Records, p. 19. 

^The timber was about ten feet long, twelve inches wide, and six inches 
thick, of white pine, and neatly hewn. It was furnished by Lysias Emerson, 
Esq., whose wife is a descendant of Winthrop Carter, an early settler. 

^ Prop. Records, p. 18. 





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meeting-house, and two feet higher, and said house 
to be built with logs." 

"Joseph (jerrish, Esq., Lieut. Joseph Coffin, Mr. 
Jacob Inlanders are chosen a committee to agree with 
a man or men to build said meeting-house." 

December 20, 173S. "Voted, That there should 
be 100 pounds in money raised to enable the com- 
mittee to go on in building a meeting-house at the 
plantation aforesaid." 

''Voted, Thai the aforesaid Committee should view 
Rumford meeting-house and proportion Contoocook 
meeting-house according to their best skill and 
ludgement. ' 

It is to be inferred from the above votes that the 
building committee visited Rumford, "viewed" their 
house, and their "best skill and juilgtrment " was to 
make the change as e.xpressetl by the vote of the pro- 
prietors by adding two feet to its vertical propor- 
tions. The house at Rumford. as given by Joseph 
H. Walker at the one hundred and fiftieth anniver- 
sary of the I'irst Congregational Church in Concord, 
1880, was forty feet in length and twenty-five in 
width, h was one story, and its rough walls were 
pierced with small square windows, sufficiently high 
from the ground to protect its occupants from the 
missiles of Intlian foe. The jjrecise height is not 
given ; but we find that the inhabitants of Rumford 
the same \ear decided to enlarge the accommoda- 
tions by the erection of galleries. This addition 
would indicate that the height was from fifteen to 
eighteen feet, and the house at Contoocook was to 
be two feet higher, or nearly twenty feet. 
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The meeting-house was completed in the winter 
of 1739-40. The site selected was near the centre 
of the cemetery on " the plaine " where we stand to- 
day. The usual dedication service seems to have 
been omitted, as we find no mention made of it in 
the records. It was in this church and on this spot 
where the Rev. Phineas Stevens,^ their first minister, 
was ordained October 8, 1740. Rev. Ebenezer Price 
says, in his annals, " the expense of ordination, as 
paid by the proprietors, amounted to ^104, old tenor, 
a rare specimen of the simplicity and economy of 
that age." (The articles charged in the bill of the 
committee were 352 pounds of beef, 172 pounds 
of pork, 60 pounds of butter, 48 pounds of sugar, 8 

^Abiel Abbott, in his history of Audover, Mass., gives the following gen- 
ealogy : 

John Stevens^ d. 1662. Children — Jolm, Nathan, Ephraim, Joseph, and 
Benjamin. 

John. " Children — John, Nathan, Ephraim, Ebcnczcr, Joshua, Samuel, David, 
Abiel, and Benjamin. 

Ebenezer.'^ Children — Aaron, Ebenezer, Phineas, Asa, and Jacob. 

Phineas^ was b. in Andover, 1715; entered Harvard college, 1730, "at the 
age of 15;" grad. 1734. Ordained the first minister of Contoo- 
cook, N. H., Oct. 8, 1740. Married, ist, Jane, daughter of Joseph 
Gerrish, of Newbury, Mass., Nov. 24, 1741 ; she was b. Oct. 12, 
1717. Married, 2d, Sarah Varney. He d. Jan. 19, 1755. 

Child by Jane : Jane, b. Jan. 20, 1743. 

Children by Sarah: Sarah, b. May 26, 1748; Abigail,\i. Nov. 12, 1749; John, 
b. March 7, 1752; Phineas, b. April 2, 1754. 



Rev. Timothy W'alker wrote in his diary as follows : 
"Feb. I, 1746. Mr. Stevens came and lodged at our house." 
" Feb. 2. He preached here and baptized, Abraham ye son of Abraham Col- 
by, Ebenezer ye son of Sampson Colby, and Abigail ye daughter 
of James Abbott Junior." 
" I preached at Contoocook." 
"March 9, 1746. Preached at Contoocook. Mr. Stevens preached for me, 
and baptized Peter ye son of Nathaniel Rix." 



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turkeys, 8 geese. 4 bushels of malt. 26 pounds of 
cheese, 49 gallons of molasses, 35 gallons of rum, 
with other necessary items too numerous to men- 
tion.) Mr. Price further says, "that the proprie- 
tors experienced a very interesting and solemn prov- 
idence in the sudden death of their Rev. and be- 
loved pastor. Mr. .Stevens, who died Jan. 19. 1755, 
in the si.xteenth \ear of his ministry." They raised 
JC90, 17s. old t(.*nor. to meet the expense of his 
funeral, and his remains lie- buried within this en- 
closure. 

•Mr. Stevens was graduated at 1 huvard college in 
1734. "That he was very dear to the people of his 
charge, and his services satisfactory, are evidenced 
by their united attachment to his interest amid the 
trying sc(!nes and sufferings to which both he and 
they were called." His sons John and I'hineas 
died in the war of the Revolution. The erection of 
this house of public worship is an event in the set- 
tlenvmt of Hoscawen so important in itself, and so 
inlluential on the subsecpient history and character 
of the town, as to call for the ailoj)tion of some meth- 
od of keeping the memor)' of it fresh in the minds of 
successive generations of its inhabitants in all time 
to come. What more fitting or enduring than to 
mark the spot by granite and brass? 

Memorial stones have been set up in all ages, to 
call to mind some great event deemed important to 
be transmitted from one generation to another in an 
enduring manner. We have an illustration of this 
custom when Joshua, the great Hebrew leader, with 
his host, was about to pass over Jordan to take pos- 



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session of the promised land : he caused memorial 
stones to be set up, "That when your children ask 
their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye 
by these stones? Then ye shall answer them, That 
the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of 
the covenant of the Lord, when it passed over Jor- 
dan, and these stones shall be for a memorial unto 
the children of Israel forever," We meet here to-day 
to set up this stone as a memorial, with the hope that 
when your children come here to view the place 
where their ancestors sleep, they will pause, and ask 
their fathers, in the language of Scripture, "What 
mean ye by these stones?" and that their hearts will 
be inspired with a deeper reverence for the religious 
spirit of their ancestors when they are told that on 
this spot they built their first meeting-house, and 
here they congregated for the worship of God in the 
wilderness. 

Moved by this spirit of reverence for the religious 
element in the character of our ancestors, the donors 
of this memorial, having gone out from the home of 
our youth to do our life work amid other scenes, find 
gratification in returning to participate in this one 
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of 
the town, and in giving this expression of our feel- 
ings on this consecrated spot. In behalf of my asso- 
ciates I present this stone to our native town, and 
bespeak for It the care and preservation which the 
object of its erection deserves. 

John C. Pearson, chairman of the Board of Select- 
men, accepted the memorial in behalf of the town. 



REI'I V <iF I(»IIN < . I i .M.'^i 'N. 

Respected Sir : 

The citizens ot the old town of Boscawen. which 
to-day for the pur|3oses of this celebration has as- 
sumed its original symmetrical proportions, — seven 
miles long and seven miles broad, — receive from 
you ami your associates this token of your respect 
antl aftextion for \-our birthplace, and promise to pro- 
tect and care for it as best they may: and when our 
children and children's children shall ask us, What 
mean ye by these stones? we will say to them, They 
are for a memorial, set up by men who, born ami 
reared here in this good old town, have gone forth 
into " the world's broad field of battle, " and having 
achiev(ril that success in life they so richly deserve, 
have, at this home-coming of the chililren of the okl 
mother. erecli;d this monument to commemorate and 
perpetuate, so far as they can, those princi|)k;s of 
morality and religion which have always been so 
prominent in this town, ami which, more than any 
other inthR-nces. have made Boscawen and Boscawen 
men and women what they are and have been. — a 
power for good in the land. 

Sir, we thank nou for this substantial monument, 
and trust that the inlluences and principles which it 
commemorates ma\ be as enduring as the granite of 
these memorial stones. 

riie choir, umler the direction of IVof. John Jack- 
man, sang a hymn written for the occasion by Rev. 
Frank Hale\ . pastor of the Congregational church. 



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ORIGINAL HYMN. TUNE, NETTLETON. 

Here where first our fatliers biiilded 

For themselves the house of God ; 
Here where holy hearts have worshipped, 

Here where holy feet have trod ; 
Here where heroes found new courage, 

Burdened mothers rest from care, 
In the message of the preacher. 

In the scripture, in the prayer; 

Here where youths and maidens cherished 

Dreams of swiftly coming days ; 
Where the children thought of heaven 

While the choir sang hymns of praise ; 
Here we set this sculptured granite. 

On this consecrated place. 
In remembrance of our fathers, 

To our children's latest race. 

Mav the God who went before them 

In the wild Contoocook then. 
Rule the lives of Boscawen's children. 

Make us valiant, faithful men, 
Worthy of our fathers' purpose. 

Worthy of their noble zeal. 
Worthy of their high endeavor, 

Heirs of their enduring weal. 

The benediction was pronounced by Dr. Little. 

PROCESSION. 

A procession was formed, a long line of carriages 
and people on foot, which proceeded to the meeting- 
house. 

At the residence of Mr. Meader, a transparency 
gave the information that it was the first law office of 
Daniel Webster, and the birthplace of John A. Dix. 



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In the hands of President Bartlett of Dartmouth col- 
lege, in the procession, was the favorite gold-headed 
cane of Daniel Webster. A salute was fired from the 
premises of C. W. Webster, and the bell upon the 
academy, the gift of Daniel Webster, rang out its 
peals. 

DINXKK. 

In the town hall, which was tastefully festooned 
with flags, the invited guests sat down to a bountiful 
dinner, including the choicest delicacies of the pan- 
try and closet. 

The president of the day called the company to 
order, and the divine blessing was invoked by Rev. 
Cyrus W. Wallace, d. d., of Manchester. 

In the pavilion, dinner was served to an assembly 
estimated at three th(nisantl. 

exp:rcises of thk aitkrn'oon. 

The exercises of the afternoon were held in the 
pavilion, the company being called to order by the 
marshal, J. C. Pearson, announcing the following list 
of officers : 

J^residciit. 
Nathaniel S. Webster. 
] 'icc-Prcsidc7its. 
Calvin Gage, Charles W. Webster, 

George Little, James H. Gill, 

Bliss Corser, Henry Atkinson, 

Laban M. Chadwick. Eldad Austin, 
Jabez Abbott. Luke Corser, 

Levi Sweat. 

The president, upon taking the chair, said : 



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ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 

Ladies and Genflemeji : 

It is perhaps proper for me to say, that a wise 
Providence has seen ht to remove one who was allot- 
ted to fill the position that I find myself occupying at 
this time. 

We have come together to celebrate the one hun- 
dred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlemxcnt of the 
town of Boscawen. The religious, civil, and mili- 
tar)- record of this town, reaching as it does far back 
into colonial times, we claim is not surpassed by that 
of any other town, and her sons may be excused if 
in our pride on this day we boast of it. But let 
me leave to abler tongues the recital of its history. 
In behalf of the citizens of the original town of Bos- 
cawen, and on the part of the committee for this 
occasion, we bid you a cordial welcome. 

The president called upon Rev. Edward Buxton, 
who for forty-five years had been pastor of the Con- 
gregational church in Webster, to ofter prayer. 

The president then said, — 

" If there were need of more proof that the ' pen 
is mightier than the sword,' it has been given in a 
popular New England journal, from off the field of 
battle, and over the world's wide waters, by a son 
of Boscawen whom we greet here to-day with the 
warmth of an early affection. 

" I have the pleasure of introducing to you Charles 
Carleton Coffin, of Boston, a gentleman too well 
known to need anv introduction." 




'S'^^ 



iDAc^A.^Ct4 GoJl^^cZ^^ &d 




II ISTORIC AL ADD Ri: SS. 



n\ ( lIAkLES CARLETON COFFIN. 



It is a tiim.'-worn and tath'd niaj). which you may 
sec in ilic office of tlu! Massachusetts sccrctar) of 
tatc. of the Plautatiou of Contoocook. drawn by 
Kichartl Hazcn, surveyor, in ih(r month ol May. 
173 V It inchides a tract of land seven miles scjuare. 
(^ranteil to John Coffin and othtrr citizens ot New- 
l)ury by the pnnince of Massachusetts I^ay. then 
exercisinj^ juristhction over Nt'w Hampshire. 

It was in tile wilderness. The question arises. 
Win did lohn Coffin and eiijhty other citizens of 
Newbury petition I lis Majesty's provincial govern- 
ment for such a grant ? Why should they desire to 
lea\ i; their comfortable homes by the sea to start lite 
anew on the frontier, making themselves videttes 
of civilization on the great highway of the Indians 
between the Atlantic sea-board and the St. Law- 
rence ? 

The reasons were various. Xewbur) had been 
settled one hundred years. It was an old. well reg- 
ulatetl, thrift)' town, large in area, including the 



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present towns of Newbury, Newburyport, West 
Newbury, and Byfield. According to the ideas of 
the time, it was becoming crowded with people,' 
there being some six hundred tax-payers, and a pop- 
ulation of between two and three thousand. 

At Contoocook the young men could obtain 
farms, and, accompanied by their true-hearted wives, 
could establish homes for themselves. They were 
exercised by the inherited Anglo-Saxon's hunger 
for land. Why should they not accept what could be 
had for the askino-? Would not the advancino- wave 

o o 

of civilization ere long enhance its value ? 

But there was a stronger impelling force than any 
already mentioned, — the lofty ideal which a century 
before had brought about the great emigration from 
Old England to Massachusetts, the Puritan ideal of 
building a community on the foundations of right- 
eousness and godliness. 

THE THEOCRATIC IDEA. 

Although a century had rolled away, the theo- 
cratic idea had not lost its force. On the contrary, 
it had become a principle of government. It appears 
in the order of the general court for the preliminary 
survey of the tract : 

" Ordered : that within the space of four years 
from the confirmation of this plan they settle and 
have on the spot eighty-one families, each settler to 
build a convenient dwelling-house, eighteen feet 
square at least, and fence and clear and bring to 
four acres fit for English grass, and also lay out three 



shares throughout the town, each sliare to l)e one 
eighty-fourth part of said tract of land. — one of said 
shares to be for the first settled minister, one for the 
minist(!r (for his support |. and one for school, and 
als(j to buiKl a convenient meetini^-hous(?. and settle 
a learned and orthodox minister within the time 
aforesaid. " 

The empioNnient of a minister, the establishment 
of a church and a school, were the controlling itleas. 
Tht! citizens of Newbury had no thought of emigrat- 
ing to the wilderness to become heathen, but rather 
to make it bud and blossom like the rose. t(j fill the 
land with fragrance, ami make it beautiful in the 
sight of (iod and man. lieyoml all personal aggran- 
dizement, the bettering of their material interests 
was a sense (A moral obligation. It was no hanlship 
for th<*m to accept th(! conditions. The) would 
glailly niake the* meeting-h""-'- \ <'"itrolling force: in 
the building up of society. 

We have onl\ to turn to ihr diar\ of (ohn Brown. 
surve)or. to learn how all-pervading was the itiea 
that the building f>f a meeting-house and the settle- 
ment ol a minister would, above all" things else. 
promote the welfare of the community. 

JOHN hkown's note-book. 

1 low this little time-stained book, its rus.set cov- 
ers and yellow leaves, the diar\ and note-book of 
John Brown, becomes a potent charm to bring before 
us the little group of men — Moses Gerrish. William 
Ilsley. Beniamin Petengill. Daniel Fierce, David 



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Hale, Benjamin Willet, Edward Emery, the com- 
mittee appointed by the proprietors to lay out the 
town ! 

Thus reads the diary : 

"Oct. 23'' 1733. I set out for Contoocook with 
y'' committee who were to lay out y"" Intervale & 
home Lotts. This proving a rainy day & setting out 
late we got no father than Chester. 

" 24'*". Being rainy we came to Pennacook. 

"25. We came to Contoocook & viewed y*" land 
in order to find a place to settle y*" Town. 

"27. We viewed y"^ place to set y*" Meeting 
house on & Run out y^ highway to lay lotts." 

They viewed the land to find a place to settle the 
toivji ! 

Was it to be a mart for trade — a bustling city of 
the possible future ? Was it such a gorgeous air- 
castle w^hich quickened the imagination of those 
plain, practical men of Newbury, as they stood be- 
neath the stately trees of this terrace of the Merri- 
mack, and looked down upon the wide intervale and 
the majestic river ? Not that. This record, written 
by John Brown one hundred and fifty years ago, car- 
ries us back beyond that October day, far beyond the 
settlement of this country, beyond the green fields 
of Old England, to the oldest England on the shores 
of the Baltic, to the plains of Germany, where the 
New England town, unlike any other town in the 
\vide world, had its origin. 



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ORIGIN OF THK NEW ENGLAND TOWN. 

Between the North and the Bahic sea Hes a nar- 
row strip of land marked on the present maps as 
Schleswig Holstt.'in and Jutland, the home of the 
ancient Angles. In the years when Rome was mis- 
tress of the world, it was a country of pasture- lands, 
marshes, fields, forests, and rude villages. Each vil- 
lage! was a tun — a collection of houses. — not of house 
joined to house, hut each with its garden. — the whole 
village surrounded by a trench or palisade for defence. 
Each village was independent ami sovereign, manag- 
ing its own affairs, each land-holder having a voice 
in government, the majority electing annually its 
eldcr-mcn to look alter the welfare of all, and a titli- 
ins[ or tenth man to he sergeant, or chief oxer the 
other nine in battle. 

Each ///;/ was a commonwealth, jealous ff)r its own 
intlepenilence, yet ever ready to unite with other 
tuns for the general defence. I-and-holding gave 
right of citizenshiji. Each tun hail its moot or meet- 
ing-place, where all i|ueslions affecting the welfare 
ol the community were discussed in town-meeting. 
The moot or meeting-house was the central place — 
the heart, the life, of the tun. Within its walls each 
citi/en hatl the right of free speech, and showing of 
hands in voting. 

I'Vom the moots went forth the tithing or tenth 
men uitli their commands to join Hengist and I lorsa. 
sea-rovers and pirates, to gain a foothold in liritain. 
transplanting to the banks of the Thames individual 
freedom, the' organizing faculty, and obedience to the 
will of the majority. 



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The town as an institution had very slight devel- 
opment in England. Not under a monarchy, neither 
under a hierarchy which stifled free thought and 
action, could there be an evolution of the New Eng- 
land town. Not till the Mayflower had cut loose from 
her moorings, not till Bradford and Brewster and 
their fellow Pilgrims had severed themselves from 
all old things, could the town-meeting, the new state, 
the future Republic, begin their development in the 
election of John Carver as governor. That election 
was the first Christian town- meeting ever convened. 

THE TOWN-MEETING AND MEETING-HOUSE. 

It is interesting- to note the words that were in 
common use a half century ago, but now rarely 
heard, which had their orio-in in the German moot or 
meeting-place, — fnoot questions, 7}ioot point, moot 
case, moot court, — the word meaning- debatable, in its 
primary sense. 

To the moot or meeting-house the Pilgrims of 
Plymouth and the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay 
brought all questions. On Sunday it was a place for 
the discussion of things eternal ; on week-days, in 
town-meeting, for things temporal, each citizen hav- 
ing the right of suffrage in electing a minister, the 
elders who had the seating of the congregation on 
Sunday, the selectmen to manage the affairs of the 
town, the tithingmen who were to arrest any who 
might be travelling too far on Sunday on unneces- 
sary journeys, and whose special duty was to pre- 
serve order among the youthful members of the 



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congregation, and awaken those who might drop off 
to sleep during the sermon. 

In the town-meeting every citizen had not only 
the right of voting, but also the right of being heard 
on every (juestion affecting the welfare of the com- 
munit) . — in raising m(ine\' for the building of roads, 
supj)()rting the minister, the maintenance of schools, 
the payment of bounties on foxes and crows. — in the 
election of hog-reeves, fence-viewers, cullers of staves, 
sealers of leather. — or the pro|)riety of yoking geese, 
or putting wires in the snouts of swin« 

The meeting-house was the parlianu m nousc, inc 
capitol of the miniature commonwi-alth. the one 
institution ever giving forth its energizing influence. 
It was like the (lowing of arterial blood, the pulsa- 
sations of the heart ot the people, the source of all 
power, the energy. th<- Iif'<-. 

A NKW FORCE IN COVKRNMENT. 

With the establishment <>! me New ijigland town- 
meeting there came a new unit of government into 
the world, a force which has given direction to the 
course of huin.^n events in this western hemisj)here, 
antl which is making itself felt in every land. 

The men who one huntlred years ago this coming 
month o( October stood upon this plain and selected 
a site for th<.r town ami the meeting-house, compre- 
hended in a marked degree the value of the meeting- 
house as an element of power: and so we see them, 
before chocjsing the ground where they would build 
their own habitations, selecting the site for the meet- 



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ing-house. They further compHed with the condi- 
tions of the grant by calling Rev. Phineas Stevens, 
a graduate of Harvard, to be their minister. 

During all the proprietary period to 1760, when 
the plantation became an incorporated town, the first 
business done at the annual meeting was to provide 
for the salary of the minister. 

CHARACTER OF THE FIRST SETTLERS. 

We get an insight of the characters of the first set- 
tlers of Boscawen — their sense of honor, love of jus- 
tice, their large-heartedness and liberality — in their 
readiness to tax themselves to make up to Rev. Mr, 
Stevens the full value of his salary, which had become 
diminished by the depreciation of the currency. In 
law they were under no obligation, but they fully 
comprehended that law is not always equity. Their 
own property had been affected by the depreciation, 
they were pinched by the hard times, but though dis- 
tressed they could not lose sight of the great prin- 
ciple of moral obligation, without which in their view 
there could be nothing substantial or enduring. 

More than this, the records reveal to us the lofty 
plane on which they stood — a half century in advance 
of the community at large in the recognition of indi- 
vidual rights of conscience — by annually remitting 
the ministers-tax of Samuel Fowler, a member of the 
Society of Friends. 

They were resolute men. Through the troubled 
years of the wars between England and France, when 
the St. Francis Indians from St. Lawrence, stimulated 



.••J 



by the French and the Jesuits, were harassing the 
northern frontiers, when the settlers of Hopkinton 
and Salisbur)- were driven from their homes, they 
scouted the woods, while their equally resolute wives 
reaped the harvests. At night they entered the fort, 
closed the gate, each man taking his turn as sentinel. 
With every returning Sunday they gathered in the 
meeting-house for worship. I^Vjr a period of a quar- 
ter of a ccniiir) the log meeting-house was the 
farth(;st advanced beacf^i light in the wilderness. 
Although Canterbury was settled in 1733, no minis- 
ter was emj)l()yed till 1760, the inhabitants prefer- 
ring to cross the .Merrimack and attend service in 
Hoscawen. 

Although Nathaniel .Mcioon. Andn-w liohonon, 
Ik-njamin IV-ttengili. IMiilip Call, and John and Mben- 
ezer Webster removed from Hoscawen to Salisbury, 
a portion of them in 1754. that settlement suffered 
from Inilian ilejjredations, and was not in a condition 
to support a minister till the year 1773. Through 
all these years they made their way to the Hoscawen 
meeting-house on Sunday, to shake hands with their 
old friends and neighbors, to sit in the radiant light 
which nirver for a moment grew dim through all that 
dark and gloomv period. 

Tin: IIRST MINISTER. 

No written sermon has come down to us penned 
b\ Rev. Mr. Stevens. We know nothing of his elo- 
quence or intellectual force. We only know that in 
every alarm he shouldered his gun and stood with 



his congregation at the post of danger ; that his influ- 
ence was ever for justice and righteousness ; that he 
had a love for the beautiful, — for, even when the 
settlers were felling the giants of the forest, he was 
setting out young elms in front of his house, one of 
which is to-day throwing its grateful shade upon the 
spot where he lived. 

That he was a man of large and liberal spirit we 
may infer from the fact that one of his sons bore the 
name of Charles — the first Charles in the records of 
the town. We are to remember that it was a name 
detested by the Puritans and their descendants, 
who never forgot that Charles I was a usurper of 
their liberties, that Charles II was a graceless liber- 
tine. A century had passed since the cutting off of 
the first Charles's head. During these years parents 
ransacked the Bible from Genesis to Revelation for 
names for their children. The antediluvians, the 
patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, all, or nearly all, 
may be found in records of the town, together with 
the Christian graces and virtues — Faith, Hope, Char- 
ity, Patience, Experience, Prudence, Thankful. 

OLD-TIME NAMES. 

Through their reverence for the Bible any name 
to be found therein was regarded as appropriate. So 
in other records may be found Shadrach, Meshech, 
Abednego, Lamentations, Balaam, Belial, and Beel- 
zebub, together with such names as Learn Wisdom, 
Hate Evil, More Fruit, Dust and Ashes, Sorry for 
Sin, and Ma-her-sha-lal-hash-baz ! 



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KAkl.V HAKDMlll^. 

The con<:^rc}^ation which attended meetiiiL,^ in Hos- 
cavven was comi)Osed of men and women wlio had 
an earnest jnirpose in WU-.. It was a threat battle that 
they foui^ht — tlie contest with nature — felhng the 
forest, turninc^ tlieir furrows witli the plou<;h brought 
by Moses Gerrish. buildinj^^ the saw-mill on yonder 
brook, openint,^ hii^diways. enclosing their farms, and 
from 1742 to 1756 living largely in the fort, ever on 
the watch for Indians. Many their cares, heavy their 
burdens, gre.-at their an.xieties. Tlu-y had few imple- 
ments of husbandr)-. and those of rude construction. 
I recall a plough used in my boyhood on my father's 
farm, built in th(- |)r(!sent centur\-, from twelve to fif- 
teen feet in length, its share of in>n plated with 
steel ; cast-off horse-shoes were nailed to its wooden 
mould-board. It re(juir<il twelve oxen to draw it. 
with one man riiling the beam to kt'v.\) its no.se in 
the ground, a second hand to mend th<- furrows with 
a " breaking-uj) hoe." 

Of the hardships ot those who lived one hundred 
years ago, I recall the narrative of Dca. Benjamin 
Knowlton. The ni.'arest plough to be had was in 
use, a mile and a halt distant across-lots, three miles 
b\ the then travelled path. Mr. Knowlton's neigh- 
bors couki loan him their oxen for the afternoon. 
Eating his dinner at eleven o'clock to reinforce his 
strength, he shouldered the plough, carried it across- 
lots. crossing Mill brook, and climbing the ascent to 
his farm. 1 recall his j)athetic words: "When I was 
at the steepest part of the hill I thought my heart 
would break : but I took breath and e^ot there." 



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The nearest grist-mill for the settlers was in Con- 
cord, eighteen miles distant. It was no light day's 
work for a man to shoulder a bag containing a bushel 
of corn, make his way to the mill, wait for its grind- 
ing, and return to his home. Many of the settlers 
pounded their corn in a rude wooden mortar. Hulled 
corn, hominy, hasty-pudding and johnny-cake, pork 
and beans, also the boiled dinner — beef, pork, and 
vegetables, heaped on a great pewter platter — was 
their fare. 

THE AGE OF HOMESPUN. 

It was the age of homespun. All cloth must be 
spun and woven in the family. First raising, rotting, 
breaking, swingling the flax ; then the combing, 
spinning, and weaving by the women. From morn 
till eve the wheel was ever humming. Old and 
young must work. Necessity, with whip and thong, 
was always behind them. 

With amazement may we contemplate the expend- 
iture of physical force and vital energy in clearing 
the forests, building their homes, constructing roads, 
bridges, mills, supporting their families, establishing 
schools, fighting the Indians, securing their indepen- 
dence, building the nation, developing a civilization 
commanding the admiration of the world ! 

RECREATIONS. 

Few their recreations. There was never a ring 
for wrestlino- within the town, nor a race-course to 
try the mettle and speed of horses. Teachers of 
dancing found no occupation. In the old kitchens. 



:>/ 



witli tli(.' jjitch-knots blazing on the hearth, Noung 
people played blind man's buff and games of forfeits. 
If th(* young men indulgetl in a game of cards, it 
was upon the hay-mow, or behind a wall, with the 
chance of feeling the tingling of a whip, and the 
forcible exclamation from their lather, " I'll let sou 
know what's trumps I " 

But through all the hardshijjs. then as now, as 
ever has been and ever shall be, — 

•• Bright eyes looked love to eyes which sp.»rv. .ii;.iiii. 

There wen- bashful 'Zckiel and waiting Huldah. 

•• His heart kep' goin' pity-pat. 
Hut hiTM went pity 'Zrklt-." 

HABITS AND CUSTOMS. 

No doubi. in common with the rest of tin: worlil. 
the citizens t»f Hoscawen. before the temperance 
reformation, drank lluir lull share of rum : but a dil- 
igent searching of the j)apers of I ienry Gerrish. Na- 
thaniel Green, and Benjamin Little, justices, reveals 
no drunken brawls. During the century and a half, 
ver)' kw h.ue been the oflences against the public 
peace or morality. 

On Sunda\' the whole p«)pulation. — men, women, 
children, infants in arms. — made th(Mr wa\' to the 
meeting-house, not solely to listen to the sermon, but 
to learn what had l)een going on during the week. 
At noon, during the first quarter of a century, their 
conversation is about the Indians, — the killing of 
Thomas Cook, and Ciesar — Rev. Mr. Stevens's negro 



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-man — I think the only slave ever held in Boscawen, 
In 1754 the theme is the killing of Mrs. Philip Call 
at Salisbury, and the capture of the Meloon family. 
In 1759 their conversation is of what is going on in 
Canada, — of the soldiers of Contoocook servinpf un- 
•der General Amherst ; of the last struggle between 
France and England, on the Plains of Abraham, for 
supremacy in this western world ; of Montcalm, of 
Wolfe, of Admiral Boscawen commandinof the Brit- 
ish fleet cooperating with Wolfe, and his annihilation 
of the French fleet. In their enthusiasm they name 
the town in honor of his victory. 

In town-meeting they discuss the measures pro- 
posed by the ministers of George III for taxing the 
colonies against their consent. They are brought 
face to face with a vital question — the maintenance 
of their liberties. In pulpit and pew there is an 
awakening of patriotic fervor. 

Whoever would fully and truly comprehend the 
forces underlying the American Revolution, — the 
birth of independence and growth of the nation, the 
rise of the people, the evolution of democratic ideas, — 
must study the power of the meeting-house and the 
town-meeting. 

The Congregational polity thought out by the Pil- 
grims, adopted by the Puritans, making every church 
an independent democracy, united to the Germanic 
ideal of the town, makine each town a Christian 
commonwealth, became an energy which swept away, 
as with a whirlwind, kingly prerogative and hered- 
itary privilege from this continent, when the contest 
came between king and people in 1775. 



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PATRIOTISM. 

In the Revolution the people were patriots. Ev- 
ery citizen, with one exception, signed the articles of 
association. He who did not sign was in no sense 
disloyal to liberty : it was his idiosyncras)' that matle 
him stand alone. Twenty men of Boscawen stootl 
unfalterini^ly behiml tlie rail fence at Hiinkrr llill. 
and th<ir xolleys. fired in the faces of the ailvancing 
foe. were hut the (laming of ideas which had their 
origin far back in the centuries. 

Ideas are eternal. Nations may rise and fall, but 
ideas live on. Libert) . truth, justice, right, can never 
perish. Liberty knows no defeats. 

The flag of freedom (lung to tin* br<:e/.cr in the 
green meatlows of Runnym<'de. its inscrij)ti()n I he 
Rights of .Man, is the banner of all the agc^. 1 hr 
May(k)wer bori! it at her mast-head ; IVescott. Put- 
nam. .Stark, Reid, and the men of Boscawen in com- 
mon with the eltrven hundred New I lampshire sol- 
diers, fought beneath it at Bunker Hill in this conflict, 
which so wi(.l«-n<'d the distance between kingly {pre- 
rogative and individual right that reconciliation was 
never again to be thought of, and sf) the Rejniblic 
became a possibilit\ . 

One luindrcd and six years ago this i6thot .August 
twenty-si.x citizens of Boscawen assisted in planting 
that banner of the ages upon the heights of Benning- 
ton, and shared in the victory which must ever be 
regarded as a decisive hour in the rise of the people 
to power. It was a victory o\' the meeting-house 
and the town-meetiuL''. 



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PATRIOTISM OF THE PULPIT. 



It is a true, a great, and an honorable thing to say, 
that the Boscawen pulpit, whether filled by Phineas 
Stevens, Robie Morrill, Samuel Wood, Ebenezer 
Price, Edward Buxton, or by whomsoever occupied, 
has ever been loyal to the highest Christian ideal. 
It is an equally great and honorable thing to say 
that the Boscawen town-meeting, whether east or 
west of the line which now divides the old plantation 
of Contoocook into two towns, has wielded its influ- 
ence for liberty, law, order, and righteousness. 

Only once during the one hundred and twenty- 
three years of its existence as a town has there been 
any lowering of the high standard assumed by those 
who settled the plantation. For a brief period dur- 
ing the closing decade of the last century came the 
demoralization incident to the war of the Revolution, 
the ferment which preceded the separation of church 
and state, the change from the confederation to the 
union ; there were, also, the want of a national cur- 
rency, the operation of the newly imposed tariff, and, 
greatest of all, the demoralizing and disorganizing 
influence of the French Revolution, which, like a 
tidal wave, swept over the land ; — these, combined, 
produced momentary disturbance in this staid and 
sober community. 

POWER OF DEMOCRATIC IDEAS. 

Were this a monograph upon the power of ideas, 
instead of a brief historical address, we might follow 
the outcome of Bunker Hill, Bennington, Yorktown, 
and the establishment of the Republic, across the 



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Atlantic, to the overthrow of the Bastile. the sacking^ of 
the Tuileries. and the river of blood riinnin*^'^ through 
the IMace-de-la- Concord ; and from thence westward, 
again across the Atlantic, the reflex influence exer- 
cising its [xnver upon society and politics all over 
this fair land, — the invasion of infidrliiy and disor- 
der. — the influence being felt in this town in the 
burning of the school-house and the meeting-house 
by incendiar\- hands. 

I'or a few months only the disorganizing element 
held sway, aiul th<-n law and onUr rulcil suj)ri'me. 

If undrr nature's economies it is impossible for 
thistles to jjroduce figs, or figs thistles, there must, in 
the nature of things, hv. a golden harvest from the 
secd-whcal, — iiu<grii\ . honor, self-denial, patriotism, 
and moral obligalitin. — sown broadcast by the planters 
of Contoocook. 

The workl has not \et come to a full realization of 
the ennobling, energizing power of the ideal ; that 
whatever sacrifice men make for liberty, justice, truth, 
anil righteousness becomes a reproiluctive ancl eter- 
nal force, multiplving h\ if< i>\v!i itih<-rfnt. \ ital 
energy. 

As we nia\ never determine just how much each 
brook, rivulet, rill, antl sf)ring contributes to swell 
the current of the beautiful riviT sweejiing through 
these intervales, so we may nt^ver know what the 
nu-n of Boscawen. intlividually or collectively, accom- 
plished for libert) : we only know that they gave 
substance, heart, and soul to the hoi)- cause, and that 
to-day we revel in the rich inheritance bequeathed 
bv them to the world. 



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INHERITED FORCE. 

By no synthesis, arithmetic, or geometry shall we 
ever determine the ever-increasing measure of their 
influence and power ; but would William Wallace 
Ballard, the timid, shrinking boy, have been one of 
the first to enlist in the great struggle for the pres- 
ervation of the Union, fighting a score of battles, — 
rising from a sick-bed against the protest of the sur- 
geon at Gettysburg, laying down his life upon that 
field, — if his grandfather, Eliakim Walker, with soul 
on fire for freedom, had not stood in the trench at 
Bunker Hill till his last charge had been fired, never 
thinking of retreat till all that was possible had been 
accomplished ? 

Would Calvin M. Burbank, bravest of the brave, 
comrade of Wallace Ballard in the Second New 
Hampshire, have been the hero that he was, fighting 
from Bull Run through all the battles to Gettysburg, 
wounded there at the outset of the struggle, exposed 
through all the pitiless storm for two days, his 
clothes riddled with bullets, lying on the field from 
Thursday noon till Saturday night, carried at last to 
the hospital, his lofty spirit chafing there at the 
enforced separation from his regiment, leaving the 
hospital without permission, to be reported a deserter, 
making his way once more to the field, to be wounded 
a second time by a bullet through his face, — would 
he have been what he was, if his grandfather. Ser- 
geant David Burbank, had not swept up the heights 
of Bennington one hundred and six years ago this 
afternoon, to win that victory for human freedom? 
More, would he have been all that he was, if his 



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spirit had not l)(;<-n stirred 1)\ what he had heard 
from the lips of his uncle, Benjamin [ackman, soldier 
of the War of 1S12 ? 

If in the years preceding tlic Re\ olution there had 
been no fireside musings on the question of intli- 
vidual rights, no patriotic action in town-meetings, 
no soul-stirring a|>j)eals from platform and pulpit, 
would Henry \\ . Hakc-r and the sokliers of his com- 
mand have marched unflinchingly to death beneath 
the ramparts of Wagner, for the preser\alion of this 
government of the people ? 

If the settlers of Contoocook hail been pusillani- 
mous when the Indians swooped down upon tnem. 
if th<\ had lied before the advancing troops of the 
king on the slope of Hunker Hill, if they had faltered 
at B<*nnington. if they hatl been wanting in that 
character which com<'s from self-sacrifice and high 
resolve, would John Adams I.)ix. son of lioscawen, 
ever have written that one* sentcMice which thrilled 
every loyal h<?art and gave new life to the j)aralyzed 
people of the Northern states ? " If any man at- 
tempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him 
on the sjiot ' I h«' character of a community is the 
sum of its devotion, achievements, and victories for 
liberty, justice, truth, and righteousness. 

Inherited character. <-\(r reinforct.-d by precept and 
examj)]*', transniittcJ from father tf) son. successive 
generations enriching the priceless diadem with 
princely gifts more beautiful than emerald or ame- 
thyst, more costly than diamonds. — character, founded 
on the lofty ideal of patriotism and moral obligation, 
made the men of Hoscawen what thev were and are. 



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SOLDIERS OF THE UNSEEN ARMY. 

I fear that sometimes in the battle for right, when 
the hands hane down throug^h weariness, when defeat 
seems near and victory far away, we forget that the 
Past is the ally of the P\iture ; that all who have made 
sacrifices for the maintaining of eternal verities are 
still taking part in the conflict ; that they are soldiers 
evermore of the unseen army of God. 

He whose body once dangled upon the gibbet as 
a murderer, whom we in our charity or ignorance 
called a lunatic, became the mighty leader of the ar- 
mies of the Republic. A million men in the smoke 
and flame, uproar and carnage, of battle sang his 
apotheosis : 

"John Brown's body lies mouldering in the grave: 
His soul is marching on." 

" Truth forever on the scaffold. 
Wrong forever on the throne, — 
Yet the scaffold sways the future. 

And behind the dim unknown 
Standeth God within the shadow. 
Keeping watch above His own." 

Stimulated by the energizing influence of a godly 
ancestry, with devout consecration and self-sacrifice, 
lighting each his torch at the altar reared by the set- 
tlers of Boscawen, Enoch Corser went forth to illu- 
mine these surrounding hills of New Hampshire with 
the light of the gospel, Jacob and Henry Little to 
the distant West to plant churches, Sunday-schools, 
educational institutions, kindling new fires on other 
altars, Henry S. G. French to Siam, and Myron 
Pinkerton to South Africa. They have all passed on 



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to become soldiers of the unseen arm\, •hut the fires 
kindled by them will never cease to burn. 

I doubt not. Reverend Sir [ Rev. Arthur Little, 
D. 1). j. that there are times, in the Metropolis of the 
West, when \(>u fintl yourself in th<: thick of the 
battle and are all but reatly to faint, you hear the 
voice of Rev. Kbenezcr Price, and an ancestr)- who 
always stood manfull) U)r the ris^dit. urgin<^ you on 
to nobler effort. 

-And \(>u. Honored .Sir. President of Dartmouth 
C(jlle}^e, are doubtless familiar with the fact that in 
the early history of the institution nearly one hun- 
dred younjT^ men came to the residence of Rev. 
Samuel Wood to prepare themselves for the college 
course. It would not be far from the truth to say 
that the preparatory department of the college was 
Icjcaleil on yonder hill. 

HONOkKI) SONS. 

Im-omi his home amid the Salisbury hills came 
Daniel Webster to pursue his preparatorN' studies. 
Here, after his grailuation, he began the |)ractice of 
law. P'or three years he was a citizen of the town, 
member of the religious society, school committee. 
The bell which sends out its peal from the Academy 
was his gift. I'Vom this town he went forth, with the 
impress of its civilization ujxmi him. to begin his great 
career. 

To the sam(? faithful teacher and pastor came his 
brother Hzekiel to prejiare for college ; and here, after 
completing the course, he established his home, be- 
coming a citizen, identifying himself with all the in- 
terests of the town, spending the strength of his 



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manhood for its welfare, till, in the full viofor of life, 
without the quivering of an eyelid or the trembling 
of a nerve, he closed his earthly labors. 

By no analysis may we ever determine to what a 
degree these two lofty spirits were influenced by the 
great-hearted man who prompted their recitations, to 
whom they listened on Sunday, who was ever their 
counsellor and friend ; nor may we ever know how 
their characters were moulded by contact with their 
fellow-citizens ; — but of this we may be sure, that if, 
instead of the meeting-house, the ring for wrestling 
had been established, — if, instead of Rev. Phineas 
Stevens, they had employed a professor of what is 
now styled the manly art of self-defence, — it is mor- 
ally certain that the argument in the Dartmouth 
College case by Daniel Webster would have no place 
in the reports of the Supreme Court of the Republic ; 
nor would ever have been delivered in the Senate 
of the United States that speech of his for the Con- 
stitution and the Union, which cleared away, as the 
lightning clears the murky air, all the sophistries that 
made the Union only a compact, — the speech lof- 
tiest in inception, mightiest in influence, of any ever 
delivered on this continent, whose outcome was 
Gettysburg and Appomattox — the redemption and 
perpetuity of this government of the people. 

Like a mother rejoicing in her offspring, Boscawen 
may point with pride to a multitude of noble sons 
and worthy daughters who have crowned her with 
honor in the world's great parliament, — in the pulpit, 
the forum, in halls of legislation, in diplomacy, states- 
manship, schools of learning, and science. 



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After such an expenditure of vital force, if the 
alders are growing where once the plough turned the 
sod. and on some hearth-stones the fire has ceased to 
burn, we have this abiding joy and consolation, that 
the Past is secure : that for the Future, not till yon- 
der fertile intervale shall become a desert, not till the 
Merrimack shall cease its flowing, not till the moun- 
tains where it takes its rise have sunk to a level with 
the sea. will the lioscawen meeting-houst- and town- 
meeting, and the noble deeds of her illustrious sons, 
lose their power and influence over the lives, hearts, 
and consciences of mim : for. under the economies 
of Almighty God, tlu^y have become an indestructi- 
ble, energizing, uplifting, eternal force*. 

The president said. — We have before us to-day 
many living illustrations of the powers anti influences 
which, cradled here in Hoscawen. have reached, like 
the ri]>ples Irom a pebble thrown into llu- l.ikc, far 
beyond our sight, to the distant cities of the West. 
I have tlu; pleasure of introducing Rev. Arthur Lit- 
tle. 1). I)., pastor of tin- New FngLiiu! (luinh. ("hi 
cago. 

Uv. Little announced as his theme : 



THE POWER OF THE NEW ENG- 
LAND IDEA. 



BY REV. ARTHUR LITTLE, D. D. 



The dear old mother invites the children home to- 
day, to unite in the appropriate observance of the 
one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of her birth. 
Here she sits, in matronly dignity, after a century 
and a half, laving her unwearied feet in the commin- 
gling waters of the Merrimack and Contoocook, rest- 
ing her head reposefully upon the manly breast of old 
Kearsarge, her hair tastefully adorned with the mod- 
est ribbon of the Blackwater, Long Pond and Great 
Pond sparkling like diamonds on her bosom, her face 
radiant with ripening corn, reddening apples, and 
purpling grapes, while froiPx hill-top and valley the 
redolent hemlock, murmuring pine, stalwart beech, 
beautiful maple, and graceful elm wave their cordial 
welcome — not more hearty in the invitation, than the 
response. 

Gladly do we come from north and south, east 
and west, to share in the festivities of the hour, to 
bring some tribute of affection to the mother on this 
day of her rejoicing. We make no attempt to dis- 
claim a feeling of honest pride in the place of our 
nativity. 




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It is good to call a momentary lialt in the hurried 
march of life, and look back. This we are sum- 
moned to do this hour. W'e are on historic ground, 
in the midst of great memories. And there is won- 
drous jjower in great memories to stir the heart. It 
is fitting, sometimes, to surrender to these potent in- 
lluences that come from the past, to listen to the 
voices of those who. though dead, are yet speaking 

to us. 

" VVe have need of these 
Clear beacon stars to warn and guide our age : 
The great traditions of a nation's life. 
Her children's lustrous deeds with honor rife, 
Are her most precious jewels — noblest heritage, 
Time-polisiicd jewels in iicr diadem." 

'I'here was real heroism in the lives ol the men 
and women, who, one huntired and fifl)- years ago, 
pushed thtrir way up from the sea-board to this then 
unliroken wilderness, and in the midst of hardshi|)s. 
e.\|)osures, and sacrifices, sucii as we can now with 
difficulty imagine, laid deep and strong the founda- 
tions of this ancient and honorable township. They 
were under the sway and stress of a great purpose. 
The) sowetl : we reap. They labored : we enter 
into their labor. Reward them for their self-sacritic- 
ing service we never can. It is in our power, how- 
ever, to remember them, .ind reverently speak their 
names to-day. This is the very least we can do. 

We cannot help congratulating ourselves that our 
faithful hist(^rian — all honor to his zeal and devotion 
ill this work — is happily able to reproduce the past, 
repeople these hills and valleys and homes, and 
make those whom we love and honor live before us 
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again to-day. But, in thinking of them, we cannot 
avoid asking, as to the source of their influence and 
usefulness, What was the secret of their success ? 
What was the invisible power that constrained them 
to come into this wilderness and build their sanct- 
uary, schools, and home ? And this brings me to 
the thought which it occurs to me to put before you 
this afternoon. 

The Power of the N'ew Eit gland Idea. 

There is such an idea. Its influence is now uni- 
versal. It can be traced in every zone and clime. 
What has been the secret of New England's great- 
ness ? What has given her the proud distinction 
she enjoys as the home of liberty, learning, virtue, 
thrift, religion — all that is most to be desired among 
men ? How does it happen that these townships 
have been so prolific in great and good men and 
women, and been furnishing seed-corn for the conti- 
nent ? How does it happen ? It does not happen at 
all. There is no chance in the matter. It is the re- 
sult of causes that can be named and made operative 
elsewhere. 

The New England idea is four-fold. There are 
four corners on which the solid structure of this re- 
public stands, and which will support it as long as 
they continue firm. There are four basilar ideas 
which have informed, fashioned, and vitalized this 
nation. 

I. Reverence for God. 

This is the most important. Here we find the 
germ of the American nation. The Mayflower was 
the product of the Reformation. And the great work 



ot the Retormalion was to recover Ciod to tlie people. 
He was lost prior to this. The people could not find 
Him. rhe church and the priesthood monopolized 
the way antl rij^ht of access to lliin. A^^ainst this 
inifjuity Luther thundered out iiis mitj^ht)' protest, 
and claimetl the ri^lit for himself ami all men to im- 
mediate access to the living God. without tin- inter- 
diction or intercession of priest t)r bish(jp. Ihe Pil- 
grim leathers, who were the fountlers of this mighty 
enijjire. caught and affirmed this spirit and jjurjjose. 
They were, first of all, God-fearing men. Man they 
did not tear ; hiit they did stand in awe of the living 
God. To them He was very real, ver)- near, very 
just, very great, and ver)' holy. It never occurreil to 
them to challenge I lis e.xistence. His sovereignty, and 
His personal ami pr<>\ idential supervision in human 
affairs. They e.xalted God in their hearts, in their 
homes, in their social and political life. He was 
ever)thing. antl. in one sen.se. they were nothing. 
They honoreil His word. His day. and His sanctuary. 
\\i' was th«* great controlling force in their lives, 
Ihey tlevoted much time to His worship in public. 
They were not afraid or disinclined to go to meeting. 
They prayed to Him in the school, in the town-meet- 
ing, in the court- room, in legislative halls, on Fast 
days antl Thanksgiving days — always, everywhere. 
Agnosticism never would have launched the May- 
flower, never would have built a meeting-house, or 
a college, or a school ; never would have generated 
or energized the ideas which have been the supreme 
glor)' of this town and this nation. Agnosticism 
would never have endured hardship and poverty on 



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the frontier ; would never have wrung a HveHhood 
from a reluctant soil ; would never have wrested these 
colonies from the hand of British oppression — never. 
It would have been lookinor for a place of ease and 
self-induleence somewhere. 

Reverence for God furnishes the key to the char- 
acter and success of the men and women who set- 
tled Boscawen one hundred and fifty years 3.^o. This 
grand sentiment was deepened in their souls by the 
^reat revival movements then in progress in the land. 

II. Reverence for Man. 

A right estimate of man is possible only to those 
"who have a right estimate of God. 

Our fathers and early religious teachers have been 
charged with an under-estimate of man, with holding 
and teaching views degrading to man. Not so. They 
took the Bible conception of him, which puts him a 
little lower than the angels, endows him with endless 
possibilities, recognizes the appalling fact of sin, and 
of redemption through Jesus Christ. 

They believed in man's inherent dignity and 
worth, in his freedom, in his personal accountability, 
in his right to make the most of himself, in his lib- 
erty to worship God without the interposition of 
priest or prelate, in his immortality. They saw the 
shallowness of those views of man which found cur- 
rency in the teachings of writers like Voltaire, Ros- 
seau, and Tom Paine, who spoke great swelling 
words about freedom, and rights, and manhood, over- 
flowing with a sickly sentimentalism, pleading for a 
liberty which meant license and the ultimate degra- 
dation of man to the level of the brute. 



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" Every man must have a fair chance, because he 
came from God. must return to God. and is answer- 
able to God." This was the maxim of the Pilfrrim 
Fatliers. Hver\- man has equal riijht with every 
other to learn, to enjoy, to think, to rule, to acquire 
property, to work out his destiny, because all are 
children of one common Father, and members of one 
common lirotherhood. 

The glory of America, according to the c<jncejjlion 
of its founders, always has been and is that it fur- 
nishes the best theatre in the world for the jjerfec- 
tion of manhood. Nowhere else does manhood 
mean so much as here. 

Schools, colleges, the absence ol prerogatives, 
class distinctions, titles, ranks, all these are designed 
to augment the stock of manhooil ; the best possi- 
ble e-xlernal conditions for the sake of the highest 
internal development ; the race open to all. the j)rize 
before all. the condition of its attainment honest 
merit. 

Liberty with the fathers meant opportunity. 

" Man is a noble animal, sj)lendid in ashes and 
pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and 
deaths with equal lustre." This was their creed. 
Antl. accordingly, the glory of old Boscawen has 
been, not the gift to the world of a Webster, a Dix, 
a I'essenden. but of such a splendid average of men 
— men who. without being preeminent, have acted 
nobl\ . honorahl)-, courageousl\- tluir ])art in all the 
varied walks of life. L'ntitled heroes most of them 
have been, but heroes still. Many of them have 
been crowned above as kings and priests unto God. 



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Of course this reverence for man implied even a 
higher reverence for woman. Accordingly, it has 
been the proud distinction of New England to fur- 
nish the best specimens of womanhood the world has 
ever seen. The queen of the home realm woman 
has been. The New England mother! Let her 
name be spoken with tenderness to-day. Here, 
after all, is the real secret of New England's great- 
ness. I dare not trust myself to dwell upon this 
theme. All honor to-day to the bravery and heroism 
and quiet endurance and faith of the women who 
aided in the settlement of this town ! Fragrant are 
their memories still ! 

III. Revej^encc for Labor. 

The Pilgrim Fathers and their descendants believed 
in work. This was one of the first and most impor- 
tant articles in their creed. They were not ashamed 
of a sunburnt face, a callous hand, a homespun gar- 
ment. They early learned that character, not clothes, 
makes the man. 

A clean conscience, a clean dwelling, and a clean 
heart were more to them than all outward show and 
appearing. Little polish in manners perhaps, not 
much refinement upon the surface, few of the graces 
of the drawing-room, slight acquaintance with the 
shallow conventionalisms and polite lies, but under- 
neath the exterior, real gentleness and kindliness of 
heart, — the refinement and cultivation which the 
gospel always bestows. 

Household religion is a good equivalent for a lib- 
eral education. 

One very marked trait of the early settlers of this 



country was their thrift. They had an eye to busi- 
ness. As Dr. Storrs has said, " ' Give me neither 
poverty nor riches' was their constant prayer, with 
an emphasis upon ' poverty.' 

"They meant to worship God according to their 
consciences. But they meant, also, to get what of 
comfort and enjoyment they could, and of physical 
possession, from the world in which they wor- 
shipped ; and they felt themselves co-workers with 
God when the orchard was planted and the wild vine 
trained ; when the English fruits had been domes- 
ticated under the shadow of savaofe forests, and the 
maize lifted its shining ranks upon the fields that had 
been barren ; when the wheat and rye were rooted 
in the valley, and the grass was made to grow upon 
the mountains." 

One radical difference between those who settled 
in Massachusetts and in Jamestown, Va., was just at 
this point. The latter came over to be gentlemen, 
the former to do honest, hard work. 

This idea needs constant iteration and reiteration 
in the ears of the young people, that one of the great 
informing principles in this republic is reverence for 
labor — honest toil with the hands. There is little 
hope of a youth who feels himself to be above labor 
— any kind of honorable labor. 

An inquiry was made in Springfield, Mass., awhile 
ago, among successful business men, as to their early 
life. It was ascertained that of one hundred such 
men, eighty received their early education on the 
farm. 

" Work long, work hard, work cheerfully, work for 



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small pay :" this was the motto of those who founded 
this town and this republic. They were not waiting 
for something to turn up. They made things turn 
up, slowly, perhaps, but surely. 

How in contrast with this communistic, socialistic 
spirit, that clamors for short hours and large pay, and 
strikes, and burns, and destroys if it cannot dictate 
terms ! 

Young men, the highway to fortune and influence 
is by steady industry, taking the work that comes first 
to hand, and doing it as well as possible. Then you 
are in the sure line of promotion. There is no trust- 
worthy, safe, short cut to wealth, or honor, or man- 
hood. Toil, struggle, frugality, temperance, honesty, 
persistency, these are the stepping-stones to place, 
and influence, and usefulness, and power. 

IV. Reverence for Law. 

This was another potent idea wrought into the 
very foundation of this republic. It was the fortu- 
nate inheritance of our ancestors. The English peo- 
ple from whom we sprang hold in high reverence the 
law. To them it appeals with awful sanctions. It is 
majestic. It must be obeyed. 

The Revolutionary war grew out of a disregard on 
the part of the British of their own laws and their 
own charters. It was all their loyal, colonial subjects 
demanded, that they should all abide by their own 
enactments. This, in a moment of cupidity and lust 
for money and power, they forgot to do. The Eng- 
lish blood in their colonial subjects was inflamed, 
and they demanded the protection extended to them 
by their charters. 



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There is an awful sacredness in law, divine and 
human, and it is an evil day for a man or nation 
when it is regarded lightly. The Pilgrims and Puri- 
tans were severely stern in their enforcement of the 
law. It must be obeyed. Now the pendulum seems 
to have swung to the opposite extreme : the spirit 
of lawlessness, how prevalent, how appalling ! 

The class of people who want libert\- without the 
restraints of law seem to be rapidly increasing in 
this country. Their conception of liberty is to do 
exactly as they please, regardless of the rights of 
other people. We need a revival of the Anglo Saxon 
conception of liberty, which carries with it the sur- 
render of some rights for the public good. We need 
to return to the fathers, and from them learn the art 
of self- government : I mean, first, of our individual 
selves, then of our families. We need to be taught 
that liberty is not primary, but laiu. We ought not 
to boast too much that we are a free people, or that 
we are a law-abiding people. 

But I have already consumed too much time, and 
must draw my remarks to a close. Reverence for 
God, reverence for man, reverence for labor, rever- 
ence for law, these are the ideas that have made a 
thousand New England towns beautiful and strong. 
These are the ideas that her sons and daughters have 
taken with them to other parts of this land, and to 
foreign lands. They are gradually leavening the 
world. 

Let our children and youth be taught to fear God, 
honor man, respect labor, and obey law. The 
highest tribute we can pay an honored ancestry is 



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to imitate their virtues. The best monument we can 
build to the memory of the original proprietors of 
this town is to carry out, according to our greater 
light, their beneficent intentions. We ought to do 
better what our fathers did well, for we have much 
more than they to do with. 

Our thoughts of God, of man, of labor, and of law 
ought to be much clearer, wiser, better than theirs. 
Standing this hour by the graves of our sires, under 
the spell of these tender memories, stirred by these 
great associations and suggestions from the past, face 
to face with such a magnificent future, let us recog- 
nize our indebtedness to these familiar old truths, 
renew our vows of loyalty to the principles and cus- 
toms that hallowed the homes and made beautiful 
the firesides where we first saw the light, and recon- 
secrate ourselves to their maintenance wherever we 
go, until the best that has ever been seen and known 
in dear old Boscawen shall be reproduced in every 
town and hamlet throughout the land. 

The choir, accompanied by the Hopkinton band, 
sung Eichberg's hymn, — 

" To thee, O Country, great and strong." 

The president said, — 

" Fifty years ago we had a flourishing academy in 
this town, to which a boy came from the neighbor- 
ing town of Salisbury. He is with us to-day, the 
honored president of Dartmouth college. Allow me 
to introduce President Samuel C. Bartlett, of Han- 
over." 




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I'kESIDKM MARTI.EITS SPEIXH. 

Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen : 

As a native of your sisK-r township. I am licrt- to- 
day to offer you her congratulations. It is eminent- 
ly fitting that SaHsbury should say a word of fra- 
ternal greeting to Hoscawen on this one hundretl 
and fiftieth anniversar\. Perhaps no two tuwns in 
all the region have had so much in common, or 
been bound together in bontls so close. They are 
very nearly etjuals in age. In actual settlement you 
are but sixteen years our senior. Benjamin Petten- 
gill, one of your original proprietors and explorers, 
was one of our few first settlers. Andrew Bohonon, 
Philip Call, and Nalhanitrl Melf)on. members of 
your first colony, movinl northward to become 
founders of ours. Capl. John Webster, one of your 
most active proj)rielors and leading spirits, became 
one of our earliest and best citizens, a worth) asso- 
ciate, as he was a near relative, of our noble Capt. 
Ebenezer Webster. We afterward paid the debt 
by lentling you two of the noblest men of Salisbury 
and of .America. Kbenezer's great sons. PLzekiel and 
Daniel Webster. We shared the same early dan- 
gers and sufferings from the savages. The murder 
of Josiah Bishop, 1 homas Cook, and the stout slave 
Carson, here, in 1744. was matched ten years later 
by the massacre of our Timothy Cook and Mrs. Cole. 
Your luios Bishop was carried captive to Canada 
in the same summer with our Nathaniel Meloon and 
family, and in the same company with our Samuel 



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Scribner and John Parker. And when Edward Em- 
ery in the month of May, and a httle later in the 
year most of the inhabitants of our old Stevenstown, 
fled in terror from their homes, we, their descend- 
ants, have to thank you that your fathers gave them 
shelter in the old King-street forts. It was your 
Bowen and Morrill who, whether rightfully or wrong- 
fully, dispatched the blustering Indians Sabatis and 
Plansawa, and they were buried at the Indian bridge 
on the Stirrup-Iron brook, close by the common 
border of Salisbury and Boscawen, as if in token of 
the common danger and the mutual help — the alli- 
ance offensive and defensive. These mutual rela- 
tions and good offices took many forms. Our set- 
tlers came to your mills and crossed the Merrimack 
by your ferry. If I mistake not, the first physician 
of Salisbury, Joseph Bartlett, used to visit your sick 
before Dr. Daniel Peterson became a resident of 
this village ; and after that they both rode through 
these and the neighboring towns, carrying their 
medicines in saddlebags, and sometimes, at least, 
travelling on snow-shoes. 

For more than twenty years the men of Salisbury 
who heard the preaching of the gospel heard it here. 
This church undoubtedly aided in organizing the 
church in Salisbury, while, some thirty years later, 
ours reciprocated at the forming of the church in 
Webster. When our clergyman was afterward sup- 
posed to have erred from the faith, your ministers 
investigated the case and sounded the alarm. Dea. 
Enoch Gerrish records in his journal, September i6, 
1810, — "All to meeting; Mr. Price whipt Mr. Wor- 



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cester. " Whipped him, no doiiljt. with the smiting 
of the righteous. 

When the great struggle for independence came, 
we were still united. Not long before the battle of 
Hunker Hill. \uur captain, Henry Cierrish, with the 
men of Hoscawen. was joined at Cambridge b) the 
men of Salisbur)'. and together they hekl their post 
at the fence to the very last. The) were together 
again at Bennington. Capt. I'lbene-zt-r Webster had 
preceded with the men ol .Salisbur\. aiul on the 
24th of July Capt. Peter Kimball, with his comj^any, 
including twenty-six men ol iioscawen. made their 
rendezvous in Salisbur) on the march. The two 
companies fought side by side on that 171)1 of Au- 
gust, and rejoiced togirther over the signal victory. 

Our earl) educational interests have been united. 
For a long time your venerable Dr. Samuel Wood, 
whose voic«' still lingcrrs in m\ ears as I heard it 
from the neighboring j>ulpit more than fifty years 
ago. was htting both our Ixns antl yours for college. 
At a later i)eriod. the Salisbury academy was train- 
ing your Gen. John A. I)ix, Dr. Henry Little, Rev, 
Hnoch Corscr. and others; and. later still, this Bos- 
cawen academy, in lh<! palmy days of jarvis Gregg, 
and afterward of Joseph Lord and Jonathan Tenney, 
was {preparing some of us. myself and my two broth- 
ers included, in coinpan\ with your excellent towns- 
man. Rev. Xehemiah C. Coffin, for Dartmouth col- 
lege. I iiere are some here to-day with whom it was 
my privilege to study and to play half a century ago. 
And as early as 1784 Capt. Henry Gerrish was one 
of a committee to la\- out what was known as the 



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" old Collegfe road," beg-inniriQf from the river road 
in Boscawen, and leading to " the Connecticut river 
at or near Dartmouth college.' And over that road 
or its successors nearly an equal number of the boys 
from Boscawen and Salisbury — a goodly number 
from each — have travelled to complete their educa- 
tion. Some of us have come hither ao^ain to teach 
in your schools, and I doubt not that some of my 
own former pupils in the High-street school are here 
to-day within sound of my voice. I tender them a 
kindly greeting, and a tender memory for the dead. 

We are closely allied by intermarriage also. The 
same blood flows in many of our veins. The alli- 
ances have been from the first so abundant as to be 
difficult adequately to trace. But I find that the 
daughters of the Meloons, Pettengills, Searles, 
Beans, Websters, Blaisdells, Calefs, Eastmans, Fi- 
fields, and Sawyers of Salisbury have found favor with 
the young men of Boscawen of the Abbott, Atkin- 
son, Burbank, Fellows, Greenough, Kilburn, Corser, 
Coffin, Rolfe, Burpee, and Little families; while the 
Salisbury youth have made gallant reprisals on the 
daughters of the Corsers, Couches, Kimballs, and 
others of this town. Indeed, in standing here to-day 
as the representative of friendly relationship, I also 
represent in person the alliance of blood. I am a 
guest to-day in the hospitable home of one — Mr. 
Charles W. Webster — who is a lineal descendant of 
the same great-grandfather, Pettengill. And all the 
many descendants of Capt. Benjamin Little are chil- 
dren also of Rhoda Bartlett, and Rhoda Bartlett was 
granddaughter of Dea. Stephen Bartlett, who died 



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in Amcsbury in 1773. But TV. Joscj)!! Rartlett, of 
Salisbui*)', my i^randfather, was also grandson of the 
same Stephen ; and one of your speakers to-day. Dr. 
Arthur Little, of Chicago, is the great-grandson of 
Rhoda Bartlett. Dr. Little is therefore my distant, 
or, rather, my near, cousin. Your other orator. Mr. 
Coffin, hatl a narrow escape from being one of my 
bl(K)d relatives too. for Lieut. Thomas Coffin, his 
father, married, first. Hannah Kilburn. and for his 
second wife. Hannah Hartlett. who was no doubt of 
the same stock with myself. Charles Carlton Coffin 
was the ninth and last child of Thomas and Hannah 
Kilburn Coffin. Had he but been the son of his 
stejj-mother. he would have been m\ rt'lativi-. too. 
Constructively I shall hold him so to-day. Stantling 
thus side by side with m\- actual and my constructive 
cousins. I e.xtend to th<'m and to you all the riijht 
hand of fellowship from .Salisbury to I^oscawen. 
Long may this noble old township tlourish in all that 
is good and great, moral, intellectual, ami material. 
To wish you all manner of such prosperity is only to 
wish that the record of the one hundred and fifty 
years that are j)ast may be repeated in the centuries 
to come. 

The President introduced Hon. Mo(h1\ Currier, of 
^L1nchester. a native of Boscawen, who made a brief 
congratulatory address. 

The President said. — 

" It is well known that there is an association in 
existence which has for its object the perpetuation 



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of the memory of an illustrious man who began his 
great career in this town. I have the honor to intro- 
duce Hon. Stephen M. Allen, of Boston, President 
of the Webster Historical Society." 

ADDRESS OF HOIN. STEPHEN M. ALLEN. 

Amony the hardy pioneers that first entered upon 
the clearing of the primitive forests which preceded 
these beautiful lawns, was, if I have been rightly 
informed, my great-grandfather on my mother's side. 
To him, during the first decade of the settlement, 
was born Elizabeth Johnson, my mother's mother, 
whose death in 1824 I well remember. Here, so far 
as I can learn, she was educated, and remained until 
married to Col. Jeremiah Gilman, who subsequently, 
as captain, led the troops of this region to the war of 
the Revolution. He was from Exeter, but I believe 
quite early removed to Haverhill, Mass., and after 
the war to Burton, N. H. She was a good type 
of a native American woman, and in many respects 
resembled in character her neighbor and associate, 
Abigail Eastman Webster, the mother of the illustri- 
ous and world-renowned Daniel of the adjoining 
town. In their maturer life, when their husbands 
were at the war, these two women were sympathet- 
ically associated, and their intercourse lasted during 
life. One of my sisters was named by my grand- 
mother for Mrs. Webster and herself. Circumstances 
have heretofore prevented me from tracing the later 
history of the Johnson family, or how nearly they 
were associated with that of Webster, but certain it is 



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that Col. Gilman and one of his brothers were in the 
war together with the father of Daniel, and the latter 
was also with him in the French war. lonathan 
Webster enlisted in Capt. (jilman's company in 1777. 
After peace was declared, and the Gilman brothers 
removed to lamworth and lUirton. in that part of 
Carroll county on the head waters of the Saco. which 
included the adjoining towns of Conway and Sand- 
wich, the families often met in social intercourse. 
Elizabeth Johnson Ciilman was a most l)eautiful 
woman, not onK in form, but in feature, mind, and 
heart. She was one of that class to whom the state 
and nation ow(,' much, and that tht? present genera- 
tion can never fully appreciate. She was symmetri- 
cally formed, of fine comple.xion, and of most graceful 
manners. j)ossessing more than ordinary talent, with 
superior culture for the limes in which she \'\\vx\. It 
is hardly |)ossible now to assimilate such a character 
with the jiraclical woman of the present day. Look 
back for a moment to the log cabins that first dotted 
the hills ami dales of \ew luigland as places of 
human habitation. The ground was rough and 
sterile, the weath(.'r cold and dreary, and the prin- 
cipal means of existence must be fcnind in the woods 
and streams, or be extracted from the roughly culti- 
vated soil. From these cabins often might be seen 
issuing troops of children, families of ten or twelve, 
glowing with health and vigor, yet having all the 
appearance of cultivated Nouth. Cultivated they 
were, for the\- had refined and pious mothers, who 
were more than Spartan in the mental and moral 
training of their children. Such mothers must have 
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drawn deep from natural fountains, both for physical 
and mental strength. The hardships they endured 
were almost incredible, the amount of labor per- 
formed was enormous, yet their mental and spiritual 
culture was more advanced than the millions of the 
present day. 

The President introduced General John Eaton, 
United States Commissioner of Education, a native 
of the neighboring town of Sutton, who made a 
felicitous address upon the service rendered to the 
world by the early settlers of the country in estab- 
lishing the common school. 

The President introduced Henry P. Rolfe, of 
Concord, as the last speaker, who spoke as follows : 

ADDRESS OF HON. HENRY P. ROLFE. 

Mr. Presidenty Ladies, a7id Gentlemen : 

Last month I received the very polite invitation of 
the Committee of Arrangements to attend the cele- 
bration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary 
of the settlement of Boscawen. I could not fail to 
know that this town was meant ; for there is but one 
place on this green globe of ours that bears this 
name as a town. There is. somewhere among the 
isles of the sea, in the Pacific ocean, an island or place 
recently named for this distinguished English admi- 
ral, whose honored name this town bears. 

The accident which happened to me about seven- 
teen months ago had so seriously affected my health 
that I much feared I should be obliged to deny 
myself the gratification of being present on this oc- 




'/0.^y ^'^/ro^^ 



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casion. lUit I am here, and it gives me pleasure to 
mingle with \ou, and renew old acquaintances, and 
exchange congratulations at a time so auspicious 
and s(j full of interest to the native born of this illus- 
trious town and their descendants. 

Soon after the close of the old French war. m\ 
grandfather, Benjamin Rolfe. came to Boscawen from 
Newbury. Mass.. and built his " bark cabin " in the 
primeval forests, on the highest swell of land in the 
township. 1 lis wife. Lydia Fierson Rolfe, accom[)a- 
nied him <»n horseback to the intervale in Fisherville. 
Soon to be known as IVnacook. On a single horse 
both rode, and carried the axe. the shave, the pod- 
auger, the gouge, the hoe, and several other tools, 
and certain domestic utensils. 'I'hercr is a peculiar 
significance to the gouge in this connection. It was 
an accompanim(!nt of the pod-auger at all times, and 
tht! auger coulil not be used until the g<»uge had cut 
out a cavil) for its insertion. These were then what 
are termed " old pod-auger times ; " but tiie times 
at length changeel, and the change is due to the sin- 
gular genius of a citi/en of Bo.scawen, Henry Ger- 
rish, who invented the screw auger: — and let it 
always be remembered, that to Henry (ierrish, a citi- 
ziin of this town, is due the credit of changing the 
old, dull pod-auger times to the lively and more 
prosperous times of the screw auger ! 

M\ grandmother returned alone on horseback, 
going through Chester to Newbury, and joined her 
family of five children ; and nn- grandfather took his 
axe, his camp-kettle, and such other articles as he 
could carr)- on his back, sought out his future home 



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in the lone, dense forests, four miles north-westerly 
of where we now stand, on what was afterwards 
called Hip:h street, and was for a time the frontier 
settler in the town, as Daniel Webster's father was 
the frontier settler in the town of Salisbury. During 
the summer and fall he stayed alone, and heard no 
sound in his "clearing-" save the birds and the wild 
beasts, his axe, and his own musical voice. His wife 
and children remained in Newbury. 

Late in the fall of the year his wife came up for 
him alone on horseback, visited him in his cabin, and 
he returned with her to Newbury, where he worked 
in a ship-yard, being by trade a ship carpenter. In 
the spring he returned to his cabin in the woods, his 
wife accompanying him on horseback, and returning 
again alone. In course of time he cleared away the 
forests, built himself a house and barn, the first frame 
house in the town, dug a well, sowed and planted his 
land, and made the wilderness smile. Thither he 
eventually moved his wife and five children, in the 
spring of 1772. 

In this house my father was born, in 1773. In this 
house I was raised, and all the days of my childhood 
were passed here. All the first recollections of my 
youth, after more than half a century, turn back to 
this spot where I first drew breath, and where the 
opening buds of life cheered me with their fragrance. 

In the little brick school-house on the highlands of 
Boscawen I drank from the " Pierian spring" some 
" shallow draughts." I cannot say that my brain was 
not intoxicated here, but this I will say, that my body 
was never intoxicated here or elsewhere. 



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Noble old town * What a cluster of great names 
hangs upon thy record of one hundred and fifty years! 
How familiar and how dear to me to-day are the 
scenes which "fond recollection presents to my 
view"! I have roamed through her forests, climbed 
her hills, traversetl her valleys, wandered upon the 
banks of h<-r rivers, drank trom her brooks, swam in 
her waters, buffeted her storms, and l)asked in her 
sunshine. In 1S40 I could look into the faces of all 
her citizens, and call them nearly all by name. I 
knew the fathers and mothers, the men and maidens, 
the bo\ s and girls, of this dear, delightful town. 
How much pride we may justK" cherish in her great 
names, in her honor«'d sons, her l)rave soldiers, her 
able statesmen ! With what thankfulness and with 
what gratitude may we not reflect upon the Christian 
influence which she has shed abroad over all the 
earth, through the instrumentality of her gifted re- 
ligious teachers ' What a noble, patriotic record she 
has made ! — and the air over all the land has been 
quivering these many years with the sweet strains 
from the " Fi<"ld of Monterey" and the " P)lue Juni- 
ata ' " 

When we look upon the old flag. " the gorgeous 
ensign of the Republic, now known and honored 
throughout earth, still full high advanced, its arms 
and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not 
a stripe erased or polluted, not a single star ob- 
scured." and s(!e standing beneath *• its am[>le folds" 
the sturdy son of Boscawen, declaring that if any 
man attempt to tear it down he will shoot him on 
the spot, — wh.it a scene for a painter I When we 



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look on this picture, have we not a right to exult 
with pride in the great name of John Adams Dix ? 

It is true, as Councillor PhilHps declared at a public 
dinner in Ireland, the lightnings of heaven yielded to 
the philosophy of Franklin ; for 

" While C3'phering over the thing, 

He tried to discover a plan 
To catch the electrical king 

And make him the servant of man. 
He put rods on the meeting-house steeple. 

And so when the lightning came round, 
He kept it from building and people 

By running it into the ground." 

Yet it really remained to a son of Boscawen, Moses 
Gerrish Farmer, to subdue the wild, dangerous current 
to the convenient,harmless,and profitable uses of man. 
Boscawen ! A century and a half of thy age is 
past and gone. One hundred and fifty years have 
flown since the voices of civilized men broke the soli- 
tude which for many centuries had remained undis- 
turbed. One hundred and fifty years of valor's story 
has been told. The glories of thy youth, thy man- 
hood, and, maybe, thine age, have been counted, 
and we here, to-day, set up a monument for thee, by 
which time shall mark its ages ; and may the years 
that are before thee be illumined by the rays of 
fame's setting sun, and while night, and sleep, and 
the darkness, in the economy of nature, must come, 
may the morn's returning sun bring along for thee 
new and more resplendent glories ! 

"O Boscawen ! While life in this bosom is swelling, 
I will not forget thee, the place of my birth ; 
On thy hill-tops Til hold with sweet friendship my dwelling, 
And hymn forth thy praises, thou favorite of earth ! '' 



The following poem by Rev. Frank Haley was to 
have been read, but, owin^" to tlie lateness of the 
hour, was omitted : 

CONT(JOCO()K— BOSCAWEX. 



Hail, old Contoocook I Here our fathers planted 
An outpost of a nation vet to be : 

Courageous souls, by savage foe undaunted. 
Sons of the brave and daughters of the free. 
Here, in thy wilds, a heritage they sought. 
Here, in thy wilds, at giant task«» they wrought : 
Here men, armeil as for war, went forth to toil. 
Hewed d<»\%n the forests, rooted up the soil. 
Built strong log houses, built an ample fort. 
With room for tiny houses in its court. 
And rearetl, upon the cleared and virgin sod, 
A temple, «)ut of well-hewn logs, to (iod : 
A sacred girt, for in each sturdy stroke 
There beat a heat as true, as strong as oak. 
Here, in thy wilds, men did what they essayed. 
And heroes watched, and toiled, and fought, and prayed. 

Contoocook, hail I Dear to thy children ever. 

Thy storied hills, and vales, and plain, and river! 



Hail. Boscawen I Filial, reverent love is burning 
In all our hearts, as on a thousand shrines; 

Thy absent ones, to thee this dav returning. 

Knwreathe thv brows with green, perennial vines; 
Our home, our fathers* home, birthplace of men 
Could wield all maidv tools, spade, sword, or pen ; 
Birthplace of women of a noble race, — 
Women brave-hearted, and of matchless grace. 
Here valiant preachers in their place have stood, — 
Stevens and Morrill, and our saintlv Wood, 



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Buxton and Price, beloved and revered : 

A score of true apostles thou hast reared 

And sent abroad throughout this goodly land, 

Yea, scores on scores, a large and honored band. 

To meet and fill the world's vast, varied need. 

Here Dix was born, here played, and learned to read ; 

Here Daniel Webster, in that long ago. 

Read Virgil, and declaimed great Cicero ; 

Here, later, he began his grand career. 

Boscawen, all hail ! To all thy children dear. 

We pledge thee, now, thy treasured Past to cherish : 

Of all thy honors, never one shall perish ! 

The audience accompanied by the band joined in 
singing die hymn, — 

'•All hail the power of Jesus' name." 

The benediction was pronounced by Rev. Mr. 
Buxton. 



Li: iriiks 



Many congratiilators' letters were received from 
sons and daughters of Boscawen. and from distin- 
guished men in the various walks of hfe. regret- 
ting their inabiht) to he j)resent. a few of which are 

appended. 

Pc >\ I III •^111: Aiiviist 1 : I SS ;. 
Gentlemen : 

I regret exceedingly that circumstances beyond 
ni) control will prevent me from participating with 
the good people of my native state in the forthcom- 
ing celebration of your good okl town of Boscawen. 
Hajjpy should I be to visit New Hampshire once 
more, and there to expntss the gratitude I feel for 
her early training, and to which, more than to any- 
thing else. I am indebted for whatever success has 
attended me in life, or the littl*' which 1 may have 
done by my eflorts to increase the hapj^iness of my 
fellow-men. Most liajjj)y should I be to have the 
privilege, once more, of expressing the j)rof{)und 
respect I have for the memory of Daniel Webster. 
who once roamed over and breathed the inspiring air 
of your fields, ami whose name and fame will be 
treasured up in the hearts of grateful millions as 
long as the granite hills, in whose bosom he was 
born, shall rear their heads toward heaven. 

It was m\ privilege to know Mr. Webster, both in 
j)ul)lic and j)rivate life. We were intimately associ- 



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ated in the promotion of American agriculture, and 
he would have rejoiced exceedingly could he have 
foreseen the wonderful improvements which we have 
witnessed since his death. Mr. Webster was great 
in everything which he undertook, and, although not 
so great a farmer as a statesman, yet his name as the 
Farmer of Marshfield will only be second to that 
of the Expounder and Defender of our Constitu- 
tion, a name and fame that shall gild the pages of 
American history in letters of living light, while loy- 
alty, patriotism, and integrity shall have a place in 
the heart of man. 

MARSHALL P. WILDER. 

(Born September 22, 1798.) 

Messrs. L K. Gage and others of committee. 



from prof. m. g. farmer. 

New York, Aug. 12, 1883. 
Fellow- Tonmsmeii : 

I thank you for the kind invitation to be present 
on this long-to-be-remembered anniversary, and 
regret exceedingly that circumstances beyond my 
control render it impossible for me to be with you in 
person, but you may rest assured of my presence 
with you in spirit. 

It is not every town that can celebrate the one 
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its settlement, 
and it is not every New England town that has sent 
forth such illustrious worthies as has old Boscawen. 

Daniel Webster the statesman, Ezekiel the advo- 
cate, Rev. Dr. Woods the preacher and teacher, 
Charles Carleton Coffin the historian, whose name 



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and fame are now worltl-wide, Revs. Jacob and Henr)' 
Little the home missionaries, Rev. Joseph Little, son 
of Jacob, who. although not born in the town, was yet 
identified with it by his marriaj^^e with one of its 
daughters. Hmma Kingsbur)- Little. He was famil- 
iarly know II as " Chajjlain Joe." and few men did more 
or better work than he tlnrinj^^ the war of the Rel)el- 
lion. In this service his faithful wife bore an honor- 
able part, both greatly endearing themselves to our 
•■i)()\s ill blue." " Chaplain J<n.*" was a man of clear 
convictions, unswerving in the discharge of his iluties, 
and it can truthfully be said of him that " he never 
sold the truth to serAc the hour." I he sweet songs 
which h<r sang to our soldiers will long be remem- 
bered by those who heard him. though his voice on 
earth is now hushed forevcrmore. 

■ .\Lajor " Alfred Little, the sweet singer, was an 
honored son of that section of lioscawen now known 
as Webster. 1 know of no man who has carried com- 
fort to a greater number of families, or exertetl a more 
.salular) intUience upon the Noung peoj)le. than he. 
His songs were always chaste antl elevating. Many 
are the hearts that mourn his loss, and miss him troin 
their firesides and social gatherings. These two men 
shall surely " walk in white, for they are worthy." 
The intluence for good which they exerted will be as 
far reaching as eternity: the work which they did for 
God ami for the world will ne\er be known until the 
secrets of all hearts shall be revealed, but maii\ will 
yet rise up and call them blessed. 

The vigorous lives of these worthies, and of many 
others that might be named, all testifx that Hoscawen 
was a good town in which to be born, and an e.xcel- 



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lent one from which to emigrate. Its rough roads, 
its rocky hills, all urge the young and ambitious to 
seek smoother paths and easier routes to fame and 
fortune. 

We live in a wonderful age. The many inventions 
and improvements which we possess, that render life 
more comfortable and useful, are indeed astonishing, 
and most of them have had their birth and develop- 
ment in the latter half of this town's existence. The 
reaper, the mower, the steamboat, the railroad, the 
telegraph, the telephone, the fire-alarm telegraph, the 
electric light, the electric railway, — all are the produc- 
tions of the last seventy-five years, and contribute to 
our comfort and happiness, rendering us better able 
to work for the good of humanity and for the advance- 
ment of the Redeemer's kingdom. 

To some of these improvements, as well as to oth- 
ers not alluded to here, it has been my good fortune 
to contribute a little, having constructed the first pair 
of roller skates in 1834, the first electrical railway 
which carried passengers in 1847, the first apparatus 
for giving alarm of fire by telegraph in 1848, the first 
duplex repeater in 1856, which subsequently, in the 
hands of Edison, made his famous quadruplex possi- 
ble, also having lighted my house by electricity and 
the incandescent light in 1859, and having built the 
first self-exciting dynamo in 1866. and the largest 
thermo-electric battery which the world ever saw in 
1868. 

We have much to be thankful for, and our bless- 
ings are manifold. May the sons and daughters of 
Boscawen and W^ebster in the future, as in the past, 



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lahor lor the ailvancement of civilization, and of ihc 
rclij^ion of our Lord and Master, Jesus Christ. 
\'er\ truly yours. 

.\i()Si:S (iKRkl.sli lAkMKR. 



FROM MRS. ANN B. EATON. 

pAi.MVkA. N. N .. Aug. 13, 1SS3. 

IsAy\c K. Ga(;k, Ilscj., Chairman of Commi I tec : 

Dear Sir : In ilreams we often revisit Hoscawen. 
Neighbors and rt^latives come in at the south door, 
or let fall the knob of the big knocker at the front 
door. We are young again. We roam the woods, 
jjhuk the Masllowers, gather the blueberries, stand 
gaily on the " I*innacle,"' or a.ssemble in happy mood, 
with a brightl) scoured brass c.fn tile stick in hand, at 
the singing-school. 

When " terrifietl through visions," and nightmare 
is on us. the scenes of dis(|uiet are ever laid in the 
same spot. lUirglars are entering the old dwelling, 
antl we grope blintlly for the stairs, and call faintly 
for liie help of the strong brother sleeping in the 
chamber above. ( )r sick immigrants from (Juebec. in- 
fected with the cholera of 1832. are coming tlown the 
road, burdent.'d with hugh packs: they have reached 
Amos Webber's. There is but little philanthrojjy in 
dreams, and we tremble as we note the door ajar, 
which we are unable to close. Or it is in the deep- 
ening twilight, anil we are wandering alone and afraid 
in tlu,' gravc\ard wlicre the " fortffathcrs of the ham- 
let sleep."' 

W'e have said that in tireams we are often with 
vou. To-daw woultl that we were with \ou, not in 



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fancy but in fact. "Though absent from you in 
body, we are present with you in spirit," and greet 
you one and all. " The dead past" shall not to-day 
" bury its dead," but we will beckon to our side the 
shadowy forms of the loved and revered ones, who 
once called Boscawen their home, but who have 
passed on to the other shore. Your assembly may 
be larger than you see. 

It was a choice inheritance to have been born and 
reared amid the scenery of Boscawen. Clark's Hill, 
upon whose summit we could view New Hampshire 
o'er, High street. Water street, " where Kearsarge 
looked wondrous large," the Merrimack, with its 
oreen and fertile intervales, and a hundred other local- 
ities of surpassing beauty and grandeur, were uncon- 
scious but insinuating educators. And surely, could 
Goldsmith have seen that long and quiet street, over- 
arched by those majestic elms, he would have sung, 
not " Sweet Auburn." but " Sweet Boscawen, love- 
liest village of the plain." How have the wanderers 
from "the old roof-tree" on dull and leaden prairies 
sighed for the ragged peak, the mountain afar, the 
river rushine or serene like the Merrimack ! 

How precious were the old homesteads of Bos- 
cawen ! There were open fireplaces in all the rooms. 
Cranes hung and swung. Thankful are we that the 
New York millionaire has kindled again the cheerful 
flame of the New England fireplace in his city home. 

There was the kitchen, with its deep, capacious 
oven, from whence issued, on a Sabbath morning, 
the baked beans and rye and Indian bread, the som- 
niferous feeders of devotion for the entire day. 

How the rain pattered on the roof of the garret 



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and unfinished back chamber, lulhng and soothing 
our youthful spirits. — a very benediction ! These 
were charmed places, where were kept the loom, the 
little flax-wheel, and the larger wheel for woollen 
rolls, vestiges of the "Age of Hoiiicspun." wvn then 
departing. 

Ihere was " the best room. It was onl\ opened 
when there was a sewing society, a wedding, a 
funeral, or when 1 )r. WOod came to visit. 

Dearest of all was mother's bed-room. True, it 
was there she " settled " in the most emphatic man- 
ner with the refractory or runaway chilil. tiealing 
with nothing so sev(-rely as with the least shade of 
deception. Hut in that room w<r saw ln-r heart. 
'Twas tliere she nursed us in sickness. Twas there 
we heard her plead for us in j)rayer. 

Ihere is a volume and a |)oein in r\iy\ rnom of 
the old Boscawen homes. 

Let us awa\ to the school-house. 

" Set on her rocks and on her »and!i 
And wintry hills, the .school-house stands." 

Ours was situated on the north-west corner of the 
grave\ard, adjoining Mr. I Insmer's hatter's shop. 
The grass grows green over its site, but w(! have 
" tak(!n pleasure in her stones, and favored the dust 
thereof. " A portion ol one of its bricks adorns our 
parlor cabinet. 

"No man ma\ |)ut off the law of (iod,"was the 
first sentence concjueretl. It was from the master- 
piece of Noah, — not the one who made the ark, but 
the spelling-book. Miss Martha Molt was our first 
teacher. — kindl\- antl learned. Her Suiula\- bonnet 
was the syphon-shaped leghorn of the jjeriod. with a 



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broadly developed frontal periphery. In sermon- 
time this antique millinery went down with a " nid, 
nid, noddin/'JList to the front, then to the right of 
her, then to the left of her. But even in her drowse 
her ears w^ere open, for on waking she could repeat 
the whole discourse up to " tenthly." 

But how the heart warms and the tear starts as we 
revert to the old academy ! It was there, with excited 
mien and stealthy glance, we gazed out of the win- 
dow upon the " trainers," as they marched by on a 
May or September afternoon "armed and equipped 
as the law directed, for inspection and military exer- 
cise." Little did we then think that the red and 
white of their plumes foreshadowed the gore and the 
pallor which should cover the faces of their sons and 
brothers, as they fell in the deadly strife upon the 
savannas of the South. 

In the seats of the old academy we can place the 
pupils of the different years ; while in the desk we 
see again Jarvis Gregg, Sarah Crocker, Charles B. 
Kittredge, and many other able and faithful instruc- 
tors. If to canonize be a part of your duty to-day, 
do n't forofet the far-seeinpf, larg-e-hearted founders of 
Boscawen academy ! 

We cast " one longing, lingering look behind," as 
we leave this shrine of our early devotion, and pass- 
ing the houses of Joseph Chadwick * and John 
Cogswell, t we are at the meeting-house " whither the 
tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord to the testimony 
of Israel to pfive thanks unto the name of the Lord." 
In this consecrated place were the hidings of Bos- 

* Now the residence of Dr. Graves. 

t Now the residence of Mrs. Emily Smith. 



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cawen's power. It was a mag-net that drew the peo- 
ple to it, and mentally and spiritually vitalized them. 
Heyond her scener\-. beyond her school-houses, her 
academy, alongside her g'"ll> homes, we place the 
church of Hoscawen. 

It is a I )ecember morning, thfc thermometer be- 
tween ten and twenty degrees below zero. .Save 
foot-stoves, there is no fire in the church : but the 
piety is winter-strained. The snow is deep : the wind 
is piling it in curling drifts of frightful height. 1 )r. 
Wood is in the eighties. The last bell has just begun 
to toll, when his sleigh, with its precious freight, 
halts before the front entrance, which opens without 
a jjorch into the church. Some kind parishioner as- 
sists the aged coujjje to alight, while another cares 
teniierly for that horstr, more sacred than Alborak, 
upon which Mohammed rode to the seventh lu^aven. 
The dear old pastor's locks arc thin and white ; his 
form is bent, and he leans upon the top of two staves. 
1 li- is wrappetl in the ample folds of a rich, dark blue 
broadcloth cloak, the gift of lh(! ladi('s of his parish. 
With reverent step he walks up the broad aisle, and 
carefully, but as though a well learned task, he as- 
cends the high, steep stairs to the pulpit. He rises 
to reatl. In changing his two pairs of spectacles, he 
says. "Children, prize your eye-sight while you have 
it. It is a gift from God." We look at him with 
wonder, awe. ami love. We fear lest the sounding- 
board crush that holy man's head, but somehow be- 
lieve that ev('n were it hung by a hair, goodness 
would neutralize gravitation. Still we wish it were 
out of the way. The venerable man gives out the 
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hymn. Mr. John Jackman (senior), the chorister, 
sounds the " faw, sol, law." His right hand is his 
baton. The orchestra set in. Mr. Caleb Jackman, 
and the worthy Sabbath-school superintendent, Mr. 
Joseph Morrill, are next the leader on the left, Misses 
Fanny Atkinson, Augusta and Charlotte Hosmer, 
and Anne Atkinson are on the right wing. " Per- 
haps Dundee's wild, warbling measures rise, or noble 
Greenville, worthy of the name." If St. Martin's is 
the lay, a slight look of defiant triumph can be de- 
tected on the faces of the choir, as they seem to say 
to the tune, Writhe and twist as you may, singing, 
we '11 conquer you ! 

Now comes the prayer. There is no formalism in 
Dr. Wood's service, but he uniformly begins his 
prayer thus, " Supremely great, infinitely glorious, 
and ever blessed God." There is one part of the in- 
tercession for which we wait with interest. We have 
watched him too many times ever to suspect he will 
forget it. He never does. It is always uttered in 
the fervor and climax of his supplication, and these 
are the words : " O Lord, regard in mercy the chil- 
dren and youth of this congregation. May they 
be ornaments to the church and blessings to the 
world." 

Dear friends, favored as we have been in our Bos- 
cawen birth and education, let us bear in mind that 
these impose upon us great obligations. Was the 
scenery of Boscawen beyond expression beautiful ; — 
set down amid landscapes " tame and domestic," 
we cannot create a rill or a crag, but we can plant a 
tree at least. With a generous public spirit we can 



^3 

make even " the wilderness bud and blossom as the 
rose." 

Were the educational ad\ antagres of Boscawen of 
a high order ; — wherever her sons and daughters 
wander, let them guartl well the common school for 
the people, for all the j^eople. for the stranger as well 
as the home-born. Let them foster and sustain the 
pristine standards in our higher schools and colleges 
against the clamor of new-time innovators. 

We are debtors to Boscawen homesteads to make 
our habitations, whether humble or palatial, abodes 
of industry. |)eace. refinement. 1 he daily incense 
offered at the family altar will invite one (iuest who 
can give true prosperity to every home. 

By all the blessings that have come to us from that 
old church, let us pledge ourselves to sup|>ort. by 
intluence. prayer, treasure, with sacrifice if need be» 
the worship of the Most Fligh. Let not distance, 
winter's cold, or summer's heat keep us from the 
house of God. 

The lonely gi.i\'- "I .i nativ<- * of Boscawen in 
Siam. — another. T but lately made, in the " dark con- 
tinent." — call U|ioii us to remember the benighted 
heathen across the sea. while many a home mission- 
ary from our town, on our southern and western bor- 
ders, or in our deep interior, summons us to vigilant 
effort to secure "Our whole broad land for Jesus. " 

Judge Ebenezer Webster, when dying, thus ad- 
dressed his two sons, Ezekiel and Daniel: "Where- 
in I have obeyed Christ, follow my example ; where- 
in I have not so done, in no wise imitate me." 

• Kcv. Hcnrv Ct. French. t Rev. Mvron I'inkerton. 



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Let us honor our noble Boscawen ancestors by 
shunning their faults, "The times of their igno- 
rance God winked at, but now commandeth all men 
everywhere to repent." The sun itself has spots on 
its disc. 

Let the descendants of Boscawen be total abstain- 
ers from all that can intoxicate. Let none have com- 
plicity with the traffic in alcohol. Alcohol was the 
most malignant foe that ever attacked our dear old 
town. 

On that Saturday evening when Dr. Wood went 
to rest, he said to a young college student who 
Avatched by his side, and who, at his request, offered 
the last prayer in his hearing, " Lm a great sinner. 
I have n't loved God as I ought." Then, changing 
his voice, he spoke triumphantly of his hope in the 
Great Saviour. Some three years ago my aged moth- 
er, who lived with you long and loved you well, ex- 
pressed the like sentiments as her end drew near : 
" I have no righteousness of my own, not any, not 
any, but I rest entirely on the merits of the Lord 
Jesus Christ. I do trust Him." May this vital union 
with Christ be our strength in life, our support in 
death, and may we all meet in the Boscawen reunion 
and jubilee above. 

ANNA K. (WEBSTER) EATON. 



FROM MR. & MRS. PETER STONE. 

Santa Rosa, Cal., Aug. i, 1883. 
Dear Sir : Nothing but distance prevents our 
meeting you at the Old Fort, of which so many 



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legends were told us in childhood — the death of my 
great grandmother Call by the Indians, <S:c. As our 
ancestors were of the early settlers, many of their 
siiHerings and privations were related to their chil- 
dren. Time has wrought great changes. What 
would he said now, if a woman should take a spin- 
ning-wheel in her lap. on horseback, antl ride on the 
cr\nter! Such was common then. Great progress 
anrl rehnement had taken place before our day. 
almost eighty-four years ago. and still improvement 
goes on. Although we live in the land t)f the sun. 
of the vine, and of tropical fruits and flowers, we 
ch<*rish the remembrance of dear old Hoscawen and 
the many true and tried friends there, among whom 
was your honored father. We live more in the past 
than in the j)resent. Our conversation is where old 
memories cluster. 

We have a [jleasant home, and are tenderly cared 
for in the City of Roses. Kind regards to all. 

MR. \ MRS. IM.ll.k .s|( )X1.. 



FROM JONATH.VN TEXNEV. 

Al.BANV. X. N'.. Aug. 14. iSS_v 

Dear Sir : It would delight me to be with \f)U on 
your one hundred and fiftieth anniversary. ^'our 
town was the scene of nine years of arduous yet 
pleasant labor. I had many worthy puj)ils in that 
Mlmwood. in whose history I continue to feel a 
deep interest. Tell the living I would be glad to 
see theni. Tell the friends of the dead. I mourn 
with them. lell all that ever knew me as a friend. 



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that I am still their friend. I never forget ; I am 
never ungrateful. 

I hope I did some good to the boys and girls 
there, twenty and twenty-five years ago, and that 
many are better men and women, better citizens, 
because of Elm wood. 

Sacred memories of those school-rooms, of that 
house, of other homes, and of that once animated 
dust that now sleeps in your cemetery, come back to 
me as I write. God bless old Boscawen ! 
Yours truly, 

JONATHAN TENNEY. 



FROM T. H. CURRIE, M. D. 

Lebanon, Aug. 7, 1883. 
Ii.espected Friends and Citizens of Boscaiven : 

I regret very much not being able to meet with 
you on this occasion. I shall be absent on my 
annual vacation at the Adirondacks. I have been 
•one of Boscawen's adopted sons most of the time 
since September, 1843. May this, the one hundred 
and fiftieth year, be the mere beginning of the pros- 
perity of Boscawen. 

Yours very truly, 

T. H. CURRIE, M. D. 



FROM PROF. FORREST SHEPHERD. 

Norwich, Conn., Aug. 14, 1883. 
Isaac K. Gage : 

Dear Sir : My previous engagements will not 
permit me personally to attend the approaching one 



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hundred and fiftieth anniversary of m\- dear native 
town, the ver\ name of which carries me back to the 
Brave Admiral, or Lord Boscawen. who in his time 
was considered the monarch of the ocean, and to his 
correlative descendants near Falmouth and Truro in 
western Cornwall. Hngland. whose characters shine 
with a hrit,ditness worthy of imitation : als(^ to John 
Coffin, the leading spirit in the early settlement of 
Boscawen. with his associates, whose enterprise and 
energy are deserving a monument as lasting as the 
granite in our native hills. 1 believe his sjjirit will 
be present on the interesting occasion, together with 
the sjjirits ot the wortlu tli'j)arted settlers ; and in 
imagination I IxhoKl Rev. l^hineas .Stevens. I\<*\-. 
Robie Morrill. \\<\. Dr. Samuel Wood. I\<\. I^hen- 
ezer IVice. R(;v. |:u'ob Little. Rev. licnrs Little, 
Daniel Webster, Hon. John Adams Dix. together 
with the great comjjany of the tieparted. who will all 
be present in sympathy to witness the celel^ration. 

My sanguine hope is that the children of the 
present, in remtMiibrance of this anniversary, will 
keep in mind the virtues of their ancestors, and be 
inllucnced to imitate their example. I'or this |)ur- 
pose 1 herewith enclose for the clerg)' and .schools 
some copies of my decimal chart, that the boys in 
their childhood may have a fixed j>urpose on hand, 
with a determination to accomplish it. 

I*'or this I have changed the golden verses of 
Pythagoras to suit the occasion, as follows : 

Soon as the morn s.ilutes thine eyes. 
.-\rr.inge thy duties on this wise : 
What do to-day that's worth the doing ? 
What can I learn that's worth the knowing ? 



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What deeds of kindness to the lowly ? 
What worship render Spirit Holy ? 
These self-inquiries mark the road 
Made bright by Jesus up to God. 

While the lines of Pythagoras were for self-exam- 
ination in the evening as follows : 

" Let not soft slumber close thine eyes 
Before thou recollectest thrice 
Thy train of actions through the day : 
What know I more that's worth the knowing ? 
What have I done that's worth the doing ? 
What have I sought that I should shun ? 
What duties have I left undone ? 
Or, into what new follies run ? 
These self-inquiries mark the road 
That leads to virtue and to God." 

With thanks for the kind invitation of the com- 
mittee, and my sincere regards to each individual 
of the assembled guests, I remain, dear sir, 
Respectfully yours, 

FORREST SHEPHERD. 



FROM ENOCH COFFIN. 



Beloit, Wisconsin, Aug. 3, 1883. 
I. K. Gage, Esq. : 

Dear Sir : Your card of invitation to be present 
at the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the 
settlement of Boscawen has been received. Nothing 
would afford me more real satisfaction than to be 
with you on the occasion. 

Twenty-seven years' absence from my native 
town and all the associations of my early life have 
in no way diminished my fondly cherished remem- 



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brancc of the scenes of childhood and \oiith, that 
will stir all \oiir hearts as they pass in review at 
your gathering. It will be a day in history, that 
coming generations will repeat, and to which our 
children will turn in their thoughts and devotions 
with ihc greatest satisfaction. Such gatherings are 
the way-marks being set up in our country, from 
IMymouth Rock to the (iolden Gate, to make this 
our beloved lanil what we might reasonabK- expect 
from the seeds that generated from the Mayflower 
and the peace-offering of William Penn. 

We will shar(.' with you in sjjirit what we cannot 
enjo\ ''^ "I If* personal jjresence. 

\'ery cordiallv yours, 

i:n()CH coffin. 



iK«-M KkKKKku; r. stonk. 

San Francisco. Cai... August 2. 1S83. 

IsAA( K. Ga(;e, Esrj., Fisherville, N. H. : 

/)t'(7r Sir: \'our thoughtful invitation to non- 
residents to attend the one hundreil and fiftieth 
aniiivcrsai) of the settlement of Hoscawen has just 
reached me. 

As a son of that oltl town. I apj)reciate the remem- 
brance, and, were it j)ossible, 1 would highly value 
being with \c)u nn this occasion. The early edu- 
cation, the habits of industry and econom\-, the 
teachings of morality and temperance, have made 
the sons and daughters of Hoscawen the true 
pioneers in ever\- portion of our countr\- where 
they are found. I honor the old town that gave 



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me birth, and I owe to her in a large degree the 
success that has attended me thus far through a 
busy Hfe. 

Born a neighbor to your chief-marshal, Mr. J. C. 
Pearson, and as a schoolmate of Rev. Arthur Little, 
with warm attachment for our worthy townsman, C. 
C. Coffin, Esq., your anniversary would be doubly 
enjoyed could I be with you. 

Should the proceedings be published, please send 
me about five copies. 

Trusting that the day may be one long to be 
remembered, I am 

Yours very truly, 

FREDERIC R STONE. 



FROM NATHAN J. STONE. 

San Francisco, Aug. 6, 1883. 
Mr. Isaac K. Gage : 

Dear Sir : I am in receipt of your invitation to 
attend the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of 
the settlement of Boscawen. I regret that I shall 
not be able to be with you on that memorable 
occasion. 

In the course of my life I have had occasion to 
thank God that I was born in old Boscawen. Some- 
how I feel that there is something in her rocks and 
brakes and hardbacks that gives her sons and 
daughters industry, force of character, and stead- 
fastness, which are essentials to success in life. 
With great respect, I remain 
Yours faithfully, 

N. J. STONE. 



A pim:\I)I\ 



REPORT OF COMMITTEi: VOli THE CELEBRA- 
TK^N OF THE ONi: HINDRED AND FIFTIETH 
ANNIVERSARY OF lilK SETTLEMENT OF 

bosca\vi:n. Ar(;. i6, 1SS3. 

Cash recciveil of the town, 

from citizens of Webster. 

Enoch P. Couch, of Nashua, 
Abial R. Chaniller, of Lawrence. 

Mass., 
Edgcrton RaymontI, 
Ahial Rolfe, of Concoul, 
R. .S. Morrison, for use of jjround. 
sale ofn)eat. bread, and cofVcc on 

haiul, as follows, to wit : 
Mrs. Jeremiah Chadwick, 
Mrs. Judith CotVin. 
Samuel B. Chaduick. 
Henry (ictchel. 
William P. Abbott. 
E. W. Durnin. 
N. S. Webster, 
Addie Flantlcrs. 

(). A. Towiie. to make up deficiencN 
N. S. Webster. 
Isaac K. Gage, " 

Samuel Ch«)ate. *.' 

John C. Pearson. 
Sam'l H. Chadwick. •' 
Peter Cotlin. 
Frank L. Gerrish. •' 

$410.99 



$300.00 
50.50 
5.00 

10.00 
3.00 

I AK> 



2.10 

2-55 
•55 
•25 

1.05 

•25 
1.40 

•«5 
2.50 

3-67 
367 
3-67 
367 
367 
3 67 



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Accounted for as follows, to wit : 

Paid Kilbuni, Young & Co., beef, ham, and 

tongue, $113.00 
Norris & Crockett, for bread, 30.00 
C. W. Carter, for sundries, 3i-i^ 
H. W. Bowman & Co., for use of tents, 97.00 
Telegrams, 1.18 
Car fare, .60 
Hopkinton band, for music, 30.00 
M. F. Bickfoi'd, for services, 3-oo 
Edmund Atkinson, for services, 3.21^ 
James B. Smith, for services, 4.00 
washing dishes, 1.20 
for two thousand wooden plates, 11 -50 
William A. Huntress, for services, 1.50 
Joseph Jackman, for services, 4-50 
Independent Press Association, for print- 
ing, 15-00 
O. A. Towne, for printing, 2.50 
A. R. Ayers, use of crockery and damage, 21.57 
Benjamin Pritchard, for services, 3.00 
John E. Rines, for use of team, 8.00 
Foot & Morse, for cloth, .33 
lamp broken, ^-94 
John A. McClure, for butter, 1.75 
George Pillsbury, for services, S-OO 
Mrs. George Carter, for services, 2.00 
Fiank L. Gerrish, use of team, y'S*^ 
Mr. Rawson, for services, 2.00 
Gilman Shaw, for team, .3-00 
William H. Allen, for cloth, i.oo 
Isaac K. Gage, postage and postal cards, 5 '24 
C. M. & A. W. Rolfe, for lumber, .63 
Samuel B. Chadwick, incidentals, 3.70 



$410.99 



F. L. GERRISH, Treasurer. 



Thomas M. Lanor and Charles A. Lang, sons of 
Charles K. Lang, Kscj., who for more than a third of 
a centiir)' has been a resident of lioscawen. were 
among the first who enhsted for three years from 
Boscawen. Hy some strange oversight they apptrar 
never to have been credited to the quota of the town, 
and their names do not appear among those of the 
volunteers in Coffin's Histor)" of Boscawen. They 
were good sokliers, and l)oth were discharged, one 
ff)r " disability." and the other for " wounds received." 
Thomas .\L I^ang was terril)ly wounded through 
tlie lungs, anil is now in the receipt of a handsome 
pension from the government. The committee of 
jjublicalion of this volume anr glad of this opportu- 
nity to ilo these brave men tardy justice by publish- 
ing this and th*- \djutant-( ieneral's certificates of 
enlistments. 

THK STATI-: OF MAV HAMPSHIRl-: 

Ai>jitant-Gexerai,'s Oh ic k, 

CoNcoKJ), May 31, 18S4. 

I certify that tlic official records of this ofHce show that 
Thomas M. Lai)g enlisted on the 221I day of May. 1S61 ; that 
he was assigned to Company B. 2d Rejjimcnt N. II. Volun- 
teers, and was mustered into the service of the United States 
on the first day of June, 1S61, for tlie period of three years. 

Said LanjT was horn in Georgetown, in the State of Massa- 
chusetts, and was, at the time of enlistment, twenty-six years 



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of age, blue eyes, black hair, light complexion, five feet five 

inches high, and by occupation when enrolled a clerk. 

He is officially reported as having been promoted to corporal 

Dec. I, 1861. and on the muster-out rolls of said company and 

regiment is reported as "Discharged Dec. 10, 1S63, of wounds 

received." 

A. D. AYLING, Adjutant- General. 



THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

Adjutant-General's Office, 

Concord, May 31, 1884. 

I certify that the official records of this office show that 
Charles A. Lang enlisted on the 13th day of May, i86i ; that 
he was assigned to Company B, 2d Regiment N. H. Volun- 
teers, and was mustered into the service of the United States 
on the first day of June, 1S61, for the period of three years. 

Said Lang was born in Georgetown, in the state of Massa- 
chusetts, and was, at the time of enlistment, twenty-two years 
of age, blue eyes, brown hair, light complexion, five feet eleven 
and one half inches high, and on the muster-out rolls of said 
company and regiment is reported as " Discharged for disabil- 
ity Aug. I, 1861, at Washington, D. C." 

A. D. AYLING, Adjutant- General. 



Births Rfcorded in thk Town Rkcords 

From 1733 to 1 850. 



Abbot, Nath'l, s. Joseph iiiul Molly, b. Aii<j. ii, 1796. 
Joseph, s. h. Apr. J3. 1798. 

Jabcz, s. b. July 3, iScx). 

Phcbc, tl. '• b. Feb. 26. 1805. 

Ira, s. b. Sept. ID, 1807. 

Nathan, s. b. Feb. 7, iSll. 

Eliza C, d. John S. and Mary, b. Feb. 18, 1804. 
Thomas F., s. '* I). Nov. 20, iScS. 

Mary F., d. •• b. April 22, 1S05. 

Charles, s. Timothy and Rhoda. b. Jnly 29, 1823. 
Mary K., d. Job and Lydia, b. June I2, 1S20. 
Abigail, d. '* b. March 29, 1S24. 

Kmelinc, tl. •• b. Nov. 19, 1826. 

Jiulith. d. b. July 12. 1S29. 

Lydia Ann. d. •• b. Nov. 10, iS3t. 

Achsaii W.. d. •• 1>. Nov. r:, i-^.>3. d. Oct. 31, 

1S54. 
Augustus, s. h. Dec. 9. 1835. 

Horace, s. Nathaniel and Marv, b. Nov. 23. 1S29. 
Marv ].. d. " b. June 5, 1S31, d. Oct., 

1834. 
Man.. K., d. " b. March 2S, 1833, d. 

Aug 5. 1S51. 
Julia A.. <1. •• i.. May 22. 1S34. 

Mary J., d. •• h. Jan. zy. 1836. 

George \V., s. ■' b. March 13, 1837. 



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Abbott, Harriet M., d. Jabez and Eunice K., b. Dec. I3, 1829. 

Ellen K., d. " b. Dec. 8, 1831. 

Levonia, d. " b. March 11, 1S34. 

Elvira, d. " b. March 11, 1S34, d. 

April 5. 1834. 

Charles M.,s. " b. March 6, 1836, d. 

April 18, 1852. 

Warren, s. " b. March 20, 1838. 

Joshua P., s. " b. March 3, 1S40. 

Jane, d. " b. April 15, 1S46. 

Adams, Dorcas, w. Daniel Woodard, b. July 11, 1796. 

John, s. Joseph and Judith, b. May 28, 1800. 

Charles Wm., s. William and Hannah, b. Feb. 16, 1801. 

Enoch E., s. Abraham B. and Sarah, b. Feb. 17, 1810. 
Allen, Isaac L., s. Isaac and Mary J., b. April 5, 1847. 

Martha J., d. " b. April 5, 1S47. 
Ambrose, David, s Nathl. , b. , 17S7. 

Thomas A., s. David and Susan, b. March 2, 181 2. 

Martha S., d. " b. Dec. 5, 181 2. 

Samuel A., s. " b. April 15, 1815. 

David R., s. " b. Feb. 17, 1818. 

Justin S., s. " b. July 4, 1820. 

John T., s. " b. Dec. 11, 1S22, d. Mar. 

3, 1827. 

Mary J., d. " b. Mar. 14, 1S29, d. June 

II , 1832. 

Mary J., d. Samuel A. and Dorothy, b. March 6, 1840. 

Sarah E., d. '^ b. June 23, 1S46. 

Charles W., s. " b. March 2, 1848. 

Ames, Joseph, s. Samuel and Jane, b. May 31, 1771, d. June 

15, 1851. 

Hannah, d. " b. Jan. 14, 1776, d. Nov. 

18, 1834 — '^^■'^'- °f ^^^" 
phen Gerrish. 

Sarah, d. David and Phebe, b. Dec. 9, 1781, d. Oct. 23, 

1848 — wife of Jacob 
Gerrish. 

Myra, d. Joseph and Hannah, b. Jan. 4, 1805, d. June 17, 

1869. 



Ames, Joseph, s. Joseph and Hannah. b.June 29, 1S06. d. Sept 

20, 1S26. 
Lucy, (1. " b. Sept. 13. iSoS, d. Nov. 

30, 1840. 
David, s. " b. Dec. 20. iSio. 

Samuel, s. " b. July 14. 1S13. 

Stephen G., s. •• b. June 16, 1S16, d. Oct. i, 

KS26. 
Nathan I*., s. •• b.June 16, 1S16. 

Phebc J., b. Dec. 22. I Sly, d. AufT. 6, 

1X36. 
Livonia C, d. Xatlian P. and Elvira, b. April iS, 1S43. 
Charles IL, s. " b. Feb. >, 1S47. 

Amsden, Charles II.. ?^. Henry and Mary, b. July S. 1S4S. 
Anf^el, Robert, s. Lsek and Susannah, b. ^Llrch 19, 1793. 
David, s. " b. July 10, 1795. 

Thomas, s. " b. Feb. i, 1798. 

Mary. d. " b. May 14. 1800. 

Phel)e, d. " b. Oct. 13. 1S02. 

John, s. '• b. Oct. 14, 1S04. 

Sally, d. '• b. ^L^y 14. 1S07. 

v\ppliia, d. '• b. July 5, 1S09. 

Arlin, Abby A., d. Daniel K. ami NLiry. b. July 28. 1846. 
Arcy, Lli/abeth B.. d. Nath'l H. and Susan C. b. March 16, 

1S45. 
James H., s. " b. May 6, 

1S4S.' 
Abrani ()., s. " b. June 9. 

1850. 
Ash, IJ.iniard, s. Nath'l and I'21i/abeth. Newton, b. Jan. 24, 

i'-j66. 
John, s. '» b. Oct. 25, 

1760. 
Nath'l, s. " b. July 24, 

1771. 
Dorothy, d. " '• b. April 27, 

1768. 
Atkinson. Joseph, s. Samuel and Sarah, b. Dec. 6, 1777. d. 

Feb. 28. 1845. 



98 

Atkinson, Susannah, d. Samuel and Sarah, b. Oct. 30, i779' 
Anna, d. " b. April 13, 1782, d. 

July 39, 1S44. 
Nath'l P., s. " b. Jan. 15, 17S5. 

Jacob, s. ^ " b. Dec. 30, 1790. 

Sally, d. Benj. and Jane, b. July 19, 17S5. 
James V., s. " b. Dec. 9, 1787. 

Jane, d. " b. June 30, 1791. 

Daniel Clark, s. Simeon and Phebe, b. Sept. 5, 17S5, d. 

April 4, 1842. 
Silas, s. " b. Dec. 27, 1781, d. Sept. 

29, 1837, at Northfield. 
Hannah, d. " b. Julv 10, 1795, d. July 22, 

1850. 
Hale, s. " b. March 3, 1798. 

Elizabeth, d. Nath'l, Jr., and Abigail, b. Sept. i, 1784. 
Isaac, s. " b. Dec. 8, 1786. 

Benj., s. " b. Aug. 10, 1792. 

Abigail, d. " b. March 2, 1798. 

Elvira C, d. Bradley and Hannah, b. Nov. 8, 1839. 
Mary-L , d. " b. March 7, 1841, d. 

Oct. 22, 1853. 
Edmund W., s. " b. Jan. 10, 1843. 

Peter K., s. Theodore and Abiah, b. July 20, 1804, d. 

March 20, 1 81 7. 
Fanny S., d. " b. April 20, 1807. 

George W., s. " b. March 20. 1810. 

Mary C, d. " b. May 30, 1814. 

Ruth K., d. " b. Oct. 7, 18 17, d. 

Jan. 1 , 1822. 
Abiah P., d. * " b. Jan. 24, 1820, d. 

Nov. 4, 1S43. 
Hannah, d. Samuel and Hannah, b. April 20, 1784. 
Kimball, s. Theodore and Abiah, b. July 20. 1S04; d. 

March 20, 1S17. 
Peabody, s. Joseph and Nancy, b. Dec. 30, 1S04. 
Hervey, s. " b. July 19, 1806. 

Susan, d. " b. March 12, 1808. 

Henry, s. " b. July 10, 1S09. 



99 

Atkinson, Ann, d. Joseph and Nancy, b. July 30, 1S12. 

Hir:im L., s. Joseph and Sarah, b. Aug. 3, 1S07. 

Franklin I*., s. " h. June 6. iSio. 

Amanchi M. F., d. •• b, Dec. 12. 1S12. 

Isaac B., s. Isaac and Lois, h. May 12, iSii. 

Dorothy, d. Silas and Dorotliy, b. Marcli 2S, 181 3. 

Atharates H , s. Silas and Sarali. b. Feb 14. iSi:;. 

Asenath li., d. " b. March 16. 1S17. 

Alexander VV., 8. " b. Feb. i. 1S19. 

Frances Maria, d. " b. Oct. 2S, 1849, d. July 

10, 1S63. 

Lcroy, s. Horatio N. and Susan P., h. Maich 31. iS^2. 
Austin, John, s. Benj. and Ane, b. Dec. 9, 1789, at Pembroke. 

James C, s. " b. Sept. 17, 1790, " 

Samuel, s. " b. Jan. 6, 1794. 

Bcnjamm, s. " b. Dec. 31. 1795. 

John, s. Paid and .Mehitable, b. Oct. 12, 1797; d. Nov. 7, 

1S46. 

Sally (j., d. '• b. Jan. 14. 1799. 

Eldad, s. " b. April 17, 1S02. 

William, s. " b. Jidy 24. 1S14. 

William W'., s. ICIdad and Naomi, b. July i. 1829. 

Maiy 11 , (I. •• b. Dec. 12. 1S36. 

Bacon, Ilainiah, d. John and Hannah, b. Jan. 6. 1807. 

Samuel, s. *' h. Aug. 9, 1804. 

Mary J., d. Henry and Dorcas, h. March 3, 1S32. 

Charles H., s. " b. Nov. iS. 1S35. 

David F., s. •' b. May 17. 1838. 

Balch, Fostei I... s. Dati S. and Dorothy M..l>. ."-^ept. Hj. 1835. 

Adaline P., tl. '• b. Jan. 13. 1837. 

Henry F., s. " b. Nov. 17, 1S3S. 

Martha J., d. " b. Nov. 8, 1842. 

Dan W., s. " b. Sept. 28, 1844. 

Fred K.. s. '♦ h. March 2, 1847. 

Charles J., s. " b. Dec. 8, 1848. 

Bailey, Sally, d. Phinehas, b. Feb. 6, 1802. 

Sarah E.. d. Samuel C. and Elisabeth, h. Julv ^, 1S27. 

Mary ].' <^i " b. Feb. 26, 1829, 

d. April 7, 1832. 



lOO 

Bailey, Judith C, d. Samuel C. and Elisabeth, b. Nov. i, 1S36, 

d. Aug lo, 1S50. 
Joseph F., s. " b. Nov. 20, 1833. 

Bartlett, Samuel, s. Joseph G. and Mary, b. Dec. 12, 1782. 
Barrot, Luman C, s. Thedus and Jerusha, b. June 2, 1806. 
Hannah, d. * " b. Oct. 13, 1807. 

Alvin, s. " b. March 28, 181 1. 

Beedle, John, s. Thomas and Jane, b. Feb. 7, 1774. 
Sarah, d. " b. April 19, 1776. 

Hannah, d. Thomas and Mehitable, b. Aug. 15, 1779. 
Beverly, Moses, s. Samuel and Ruth, b. Sept. 21, 1788. 
Blanchard, Judith, d. Simeon Blanchard and Dorothy Elliott, 

b. Jan. 27, 1784. 
Carter, s. Amos and Susannah, b. Dec. 31, 1817. 
Nancy B., d. " b. Nov. 15, 1821, d. Feb. 

6, 1845. 
Caroline S., d. " b. Feb. 6, 1827. 

Mary J., d. " b. May 10, 1834. 

Pluma A., d. " b. July 28, 1836. 

John F., s. Carter F. and Julia A., b. May 2, 1843. 
Bishop, John, s. Enos and Anna, b. Dec. 10, i757' 
Elizabeth, d. " b. Jan. 31, 1760. 

Sarah, d. " b. Jan. 31, 1762. 

Hannah, d. " b. May 17, 1764, 

Benjamin, s. " b. Oct. 22, 1766. 

Enos, s. " b. Nov. 21, 1769. 

Josiah, s. Enos and Elizabeth, b. Oct. 7, 1750. 
Susanna, d. " b. Dec. 15, 1753. 

Bowley, Jacob, s. John and Joanna, b. May 17, 1778. 
Sarah, d. " b. Sept. 8, 17S3. 

Bohonon, Stephen, s. Jacob and Sally, b. Feb. i, 1790- 
Beverly, Samuel, s. Samuel and Ruth. b. Dec. 9, 1786, d. July 

10, 1811. 
Betty, d. " b. March 3, 1791. 

Boyden, Wyatt, s. Eliza Day, b. Dec. 24, 1S35. 
Bowers, Denison T., s. Denison and Fanny, b. Nov. 12, 

1793- 
Fanny P., d. " b. Nov. 22, 1795. 

Francis, s. " b. Aug. 5, 1801. 



lOI 

Bowers, Eli /a, li. Reuben C. and Betsey. l>. Aug. 19, 1S05, d. 

Dec. 31. 1S17. 

Benj. s. '^ b. March 6, 1S07. 

Grovenor B., s. " b. March 26, 1S09. 

Reuben I... -. • b. Oct. zo, iSio. 

Altannmt D.. -. '• b. Oct. 27. 1S12. 

Sally \V'., d. •• b. April 30. 1S14, d. April 

13. 1S39. 

Jane, d. " b. Feb. 27, 1S16. 

Joel. 8. " b. May 11, iSiS. 

Eli/a. a. '' b. Jan. 17, 1S21. 

John F., s. " b. Dec. 27. 1S22. 

Joseph R., s. " b. Feb. 19, 1825. 

Mary A. B., d. - b. Nov. 3. 182S. 

Brown, Hannah, d. William and Anne, b. April 5, 1781. 

Richard, s. • b. July 27. 1779. 

Elizabeth, d. '• b. July 19, 1 7S3. 

Joseph, s. " b. May 31, 17S6. 

Levi, s. Nathaniel and Hannah, b. Dec. 3, 1794. 

Sophia, il. Tlmmas antl Susannah, b. Feb 22, 1802. 

Polly G., d. •' b. Jan. 16, 1S06. 

Charlotte M.d. John F. and Charlotte F.,b. Aug. 29, 1850. 

James 1'., s. Mary Brown, b. Jan. 15, 1S33. 
Buswell. Helen M., d. Benj. F. and Mary J., b. Jan. 5, 1S49, 

d. !>ept. 29, 1S50. 

Walter, s. " b. March 15. 1S47. 

Burbank. Jonathan, s. Samuel and Eunice, b. Aug. 11, 17S4. 

Molly, d. Wells and Meriby, b. Sept. 2. 1784. 

Nathaniel, s. Moses and .Sarah, b. Sept. I. 1763. 

Jonathan, s. " b. May 29, 1765. 

Daniel, s. " b. Jan. 4, 1767. 

Joseph, s. Jonathan, b. April 9. 17S6. 

Jane. d. •• !>. June 8, 17S7. 

Nancy, d. • b. March 11, 1789. 

Judith, d. •• b. May 24, 1791. 

Samuel, s. •• b. July 11. 1793. 

Betsey, d. '• b. June 24, 1795. 

Patty, d. '* b. May 12, 1797, 

Nathaniel, s. •' b. March 15. 1799. 



I02 



Burbank, Jonathan, s. Jonathan, b. May 29, 1800. 
Moses, s. " b. June 26, iSoi. 

Paul D., s. " b. June 27, 1S02. 

Nathan, s. Samuel and Eunice, b. Feb. 24, 17S6. 
Elizabeth, d. ^ " b. June 6, 17SS. 

Little, s. David and Molly, b. Feb. 2, 17S7. 
Jesse, s. " b. June 13, 1790. 

Enoch, s. " b. July 20, 1793. 

Judith, d. " b. July lo, 179S, d. Sept. 29, 

1853- 
Betty, d. Wells and Mary, b. Feb. 26, 17S7. 

Eleazer, s. " b. Nov. 13, 17SS. 

Horace R., s. Daniel and Sarah, b. May 14, 181 1. 

Laura E., d. " b. Nov. 30, 1813. 

Eliphalet L., s. " b. Dec. 22, 1S16. 

Ebenezer L., s. " b. Dec. 29, 181S. 

David P., s. Eleazer and Drusilla, b. Sept. 30, 1816. 

Webster F., s. " b. April 10, 181S. 

^- Moses, s. Moses and Hannah, b. June 26, 1741. 



Samuel, s. 
Nathaniel, s. 
Molley, d. 
David, s. 
Wells, s. 
Sarah, d. 
Betty, d. 
Josiah, s. 
Eliezer, s. 



b. Aug., 1745. 
b. Dec. 14, 1747. 
b. Feb. 20, 1749. 
b. July 4, 1754. 
b. Aug. 8, 1756. 
b. Sept.. 1758. 
b. Dec. I, 1760. 
b. June 30, 1 761. 
b. Jan. 19, 1763. 



Joseph, s. Samuel and Eunice, b. Aug. 23, 1771. 
Sarah, d. " b. Aug. 28, 1773. 

Eunice, d. " b. May 2, 1775. 

Samuel, s. " b. March 25, 1777. 

Moses, s. " b. Oct. 12, 1778. 

Judith, d. " b. Sept. 23, 1780. 

Josiah, s. " b. July 11, 1782. 

Sarah, d. David and Molly, b. Feb. 9, 1779, d. April 7, 

1817. 
Abigail, d. " b. March 28, 1780, d. July 18, 

iSii. 



lO' 



Burbank, Abraham, s. David and Molly, b. Nov. i6. 17S1. 

Eliezar, s. '• b. Jan. i. 17S5. 

Stephen, s. Moses and Sarah, b. Feb. ^. 176S. 

Stephen, s. b. Feb. 3, 1769. 

Silas, s. b. March 16, 1771. 

Priscilla, d. • b. April S, 1773. 

Ilazcn, s. '• b. Oct. iS, 1775. 

Hannah, d '• b. April u, 1779. 

Moses, s. ♦• b. Jan. 4. 1781. 

John, s. Nathaniel and M«jlly, b. Anjj. 20, 177S. 

Friend L., s. Abraham and Molly, b. June J9, 1806. 

Joanna C, d. '' b. March 5. 1S08, d. 

Feb. 19, 1S43. 

Mary L., d. '' b. Nov. 16, 1S09. 

Sophronia (j., d., " b. Aug. 25, 1S12. d. 

Feb. 22, 1S47. 

Juditli C d. " b. Nov. 2, 1S15, d. 

Nov. 20, 1S47. 

M«»ll\. wife of Abraham, d. March 16. 1S16. 

G. W., R. Abraham and Folly M.. b. Jinie 29, 1819. 

David i:..s. " b. May 16, 1822. 

Hittield I'.,s. " b. March I, 1S24. 

Abraham 1* , s. '• b. Nov. 2, 1S25. 

A/.ro .S.. s. '• b. Aug. 29, 1827. 

Ezekiel W'.. s. •' b. June 16, 1829. 

Amand.i J., d. ♦* b. June 12, 1831. 

Lucretia 1... d. Little and Jmlitli C b. April 13, 1S19, d. 

Dec. 12. 183S. 

Hatmah F.. d. " b. Sept. 27. 182 i, d. 

Feb. 19, 1842. 

Emulous \V., s. •• b. Nov. 20, 1S25. 

Calvin M.. s. •* b. June 16, 1S32. 

Lucreti.i L.. d. Friend L. and Dorothy, b. May 21, 1S40. 

William \V.. s. " b. Sept. 13, 1S42. 

Joanna C. d. " b. Jan. 22, 1846, 

d. Dec. 23, 1S48. 
Burniiam, L\(lia A., d. Henry and Lucinda. b. Jan. 8. 1850. 

Mary J., (I. Lucinda Marsh, b. Jan. 18, 1847, d. Jan. 30, '853. 
Burpee, Eli/a T., d. Jeremiah J. and Nancy, b. Feb. 20. 1S05. 



I04 

Burpee, Judith W., d. Jeremiah J. and Nancy, b. Mar. 8, 1807. 
Joshua W., s. " b. April 28, 1S09, 

d. Dec. 23, 1839. 
Thomas G., s. Nath'l and Catharine, b. Oct. 12, 1805, d. 

May 22, 1807. 
Thomas, s. " d. April 22, 1807. 

"-Joseph E., s. " b. Feb. i, 1S07. 

Fanny G., d. "' b. Nov. 17,1808. 

Nathaniel, s. " b. April 21, 1812. 

Eliphalet, s. " b. Feb. 25, 1814. 

Catharine, d. " b. Feb. 23, 1817, d. 

Feb. 14, 1819. 
Sally, d. " b. March 8, 1819, d. 

Nov. 5, 1S22. 
Samuel W., s. " b. April 8, 1821. 

Martha T. J., d. " b. Sept. 19, 1823. 

Augustus, s. Jeremiah and Nancy, b. July 12, 18 13. 
Roxy, d. " b. Feb. 3, 1S15. 

Mary S., d. " b. Feb. 9, 1817. 

Wells, s. Jeremiah and Sally P., b. Dec. 29, 1818, d. Feb. 

22, 1819. 
Ruth, d. " b. July 4, 1820, d. Dec. 

8, 1S33. 
Samuel G., s. " b. Aug. 3, 1822. 

Jeremiah, s. " b. July 20, 1824. 

John, s. Jilleous H. and Merriam, b. June 17, 1817. 
Hiram, s. " b. Aug. 28, 1818. 

William B., s. Joseph and Zilphia, b. Jan. 3, 1S19. 
Sardina, d. " b. May 3, 1820. 

Almenia, d. " b. May 12, 182 1, d. 

Nov. 30, 1S50. 
Lorena, d. " b. Aug.- 11, 1822, d. 

April 17, 1849. 
Burzill, d. " b. Jan. 24, 1824, d. July 

21, 1825. 
Ruth, d. " b. Oct. 17, 1825, d. 

July 13, 1826. 
Ruth B., d. " b. May 27, 1827. 

Joseph, s. " b. Aug. lo, 1829. 



I05 

Burpee. Zilpliia H., ci. Joseph aiui Zilpliia. b. Oct. 31. 1S30. 

ICnuliiie S., (I. '" b. Sept. 19, 1S33. 

Barn.n F. S.. s. '' h. Aug. 5, 1S36 

Loreiia W.. d •' b. Nov. 13. 1S39. 

Clara F., d. Win. H. and Emily S., b. Auj;. 31, 1S49. 
Buxton, Eiisal)ethMcF.,d. Fdw'datuI Flisabcth. h. Apr 2, 1S39. 

Edwanl, s. •• i>. May 25,1841, 

il. Dec. 6. 1S44. 
Calef. Daiiii-l K.. s. Garland and Nancy, b. April 16, 1S35. 

F'recmafi W .. s. •• b. Nov. 23, 1S37. 

Polly B., d. •• b. March 26. 1842. 

Calcf, Garland, s. Daniel and Asenath, b. Jan. 5, 1801. 
Call, Hannah, d. Moses and Mchetalwl, b. Sept. 6. 1751. 

Phcbe, d. *• b. .Sept. 11, 1753. 

Moses, s. b. June 12. 1755. 

Silas, s. b. March 17. 17^8. 

Phebe, d. b. .Sept. 10. 1760. 

Timothy, s. '• b. Feb. 13, 1763. 

David, s. b. May iS. 1765. 

Daniel, s. b. Oct. 13, 1767. 

Nathan, s. •• b. Oct. 15, 1 770. 

Davi<l. s. David Call and J. me Jackman, b. Nov. 19, 

I 7.S6. 

Hannah, d. .Silas and Molly, b. Aug. 2t, 17S5. 

Polly, d. •' b. July 2, 17S7. 

Silas, s. '* b. Oct. 9, 1790. 

Lemuel, s. ** b. I»dy 15, 1792. 

Betsey, d. *' b. Feb. to, 1795, d* Sept. 7, 

1796. 

Betsey, d. " b. May 5. 1797. 

Royal, s. " b. Jan. 27. iSoo. 

Ruth. d. *' b. Dec. 31, 1802. 

Moses, s. " b. April 9. 1S05. 

Jonas, 9. " b. Jan. 8, 180S. 

Phebe, d. " b. Sept. 7. iSii.d. Oct. z^,, 

1S34. 

Enoch, s. Moses and Sarah. 1>. Oct. 3. 17S0. d. Dec. 1S12. 

Moses, s. " b. Jan. 21, 17S2. d. May t, 

1S48. 



io6 

Call, John, s. Moses and Sarah, b. May 15, 1784, d. Sept. 11, 

1S44. 
Sarah, d. " b. Jan. 12, 17S6. 

David, s, " b. June 24, 1791. 

Nathan, s. " b. Dec. 12, 1792. 

Luke, s. * " b. May 5, 1795. 

Silas E., s. Silas and Sarah, b. June 7, 1S16, d. Dec. 14, 

iSiS. 
Sarah A., d. " ' b. Sept. 2t, 1821, d. Sept. 20, 

1849. 
Emily, d. " b. Aug. 20, 1S23. 

Silas, s. " b. Dec. 10, 1S25. 

Nathan, s. " b. Sept. 27, 1S27. 

Reuben M., s. Lemuel and Rhoda, b. June 6, 1816. 
Nancy, d. " b. July 12, 1819. 

William W., s., " b. Jan. 13, 1822. 

Jonas, s. '• b. April 26, 1826. 

Pierce S., s. " b. Jan. 16, 1829. 

Phebe, d. " b. Jan. 28, 1836. 

George H., s. Luke and Olive, b. Nov. 25, 1822, d. Oct. 

29, 1826. 
Joan, d. " b. July 16, 1825, d. Oct. 

6, 1S26. 
Luke, s. " b. Oct. II, 1827. 

James, s. " b. March 12, 1836. 

George, s. " b. Feb. 5, 1S40. 

Hannah W., d. Lemuel and Rebecah, b. Feb. 10, 1824, d. 

Feb. 5, 1825. 
Sarah E., d. David and Polly, b. July 2, 1821. 
Alvira, d. " b. Oct. 31, 1823, d. Jan. 15, 

1848. 
Levi, s. " b. March 20, 1S27. 

Mary, d. " b. June 29, 1830. 

Royal, s. " b. Oct. 7, 1833. 

Emily, S., d., " b. Nov. 3, 1S35. 

Phebe J., d., " b. March 19, 1841. 

Julian, d. John and Dorothy, b. Oct. 23, 1826, d. June 14, 

1842. 
Nathan, s. " b. Nov. 24, 1833. 



lo; 

Call, Joseph, s. John and Dorothy, b. July ^6. 1S36. 

Catharine S.. <1. Enoch antl Ruth. b. June 17. 1S40. 
Willi;im H., s. \Vm. D. and ICli/a J., h. May 11, 1S45. d. 

Sept. iS. 1S51. 
LoviiKi I). I)., d. •• b, Nov. 15, 1S4S, d. 

Oct. 3, 1S5S. 
Ansel F., s. " b. Oct. 13, 1S50, d. 

Oct. 13, 1S51. 
A<l<lie, d. Ik-njamin V. and Eli/a, b. Nov. 3, 1S46. 
Ira A., 8. •* b. Nov. 3. 1849. 

Eudocia, d. John and Oorothy, b. Nov. 5, 1S21. 
Car, Hannah, d. Richard and Joanna, b. April 21, 17S1. 
Carr, Jane, d Thomas and Lois, b. Oct. 11, 1816. 
James, s •' .Sept. lo. iSiS. 

Jona. K.. b. March 31, 1S20. 

Carter. Jesse, .>>. 1 iniolhy and .Susannah, b. Aug. 17, i 75S. 

Daiiitl. s. W'iiithrup and Susannah, b. Dec. ly, 1759, d. 

1840. 
Jesse 1;., s. Ik-nj. and Juchth, b. N(»v. 26, t^*6, in Con- 
cord. 
Jeremiah, s. " b. June 6, 1S30. 

Nathan, " b. Dec. 19, 1759, d. 1S40. 

Jeremiah, s. '* b. April 26, 1764. 

Polly, d. Winthrop and Sarah, b. May 7. 1773. 
Naomi, «1. '* b. April 9, 1796. 

Susannah, d. b. May 25, 1782. 

Thomas, s. Davitl and Dorcas, b. Match 5, 1776,(1. Dec. 9, 

iS.}4. 
John. s. •' b. Oct. 1.4. 177S. 

Patty, d. " b. Auj;. 25. 17S0. 

Judith, d. '' b. Dec. 28. 17S6. 

Judith, d. Nathan and Sally, b. Dec. 5, 17S7. 
Moses, s. ** b. Aug. 6, 1790. d. June, 

1 85 1, in Canterbury. 
Daniel, s. Daniel and Mary. b. March 16. 17S5. 
Polly, d. •• b. Jan. 26. 17S7. 

Sally, d. " b. April 27. 1790. 

Jeremiah, s. Nathan anil Sarah, b. Feb. 20, 1S03. 
Nathan, s. " b. Feb. 4. 1S07. 



Ruth, d. 




Merrill, s. 




Jeremiah, 


s. 


John, 


s. 


Clark, 


s. 


Maria, 


d. 



1 08 

Carter, Elbridge G., s. Daniel, Jr., and Sarah, b. Dec. 4, 1808. 
Naomi, d. Thomas and Nancy, b. Jan. 8, 1S06. 
" b, Oct. 10, 1807. 

" b. Jan. 6, iSio. 

" b. Feb. 2, 1S12. 

" b. Feb. 3, 181 2, d. Feb., 

1S12. 
" b. April 23, 1819. 

" b. April 23, 1S19. 

Bradbury G., s. John and Lydia, b. Feb. 3, 1S27. 
Luther G., s. " b. Aug. 25, 1829. 

Mary C, d. Elbridge G. and Sarah, b. Dec. 10, 1S36. 
Cass, Samuel, s. Barnard and Martha, b. Feb. 23, 1798. 
Clarissa, d. " b. Jan. 15, t8oo. 

Sabrina, d. " b.Nov. 15, 1S02, d.Feb. 

25, 1803. 
Charles M., s. " b. Dec. 25, 1805. 

Joseph G., s., " b. Aug. 7, 1807. 

Jonathan, s. " b. Nov. 10, 1809. 

Philena, d. " b. Nov. 15, 181 1. 

Chadwick, Joseph, s. Edmund and Susannah, b. July 19, i777- 
Samuel, s. " b. May 26, 1780. 

James, s. " b. Jan. i, 1782. 

Folly, d. " b. Oct. 2, 1791, 

d. Feb. 10, 1832. 
Edmund, S., s. Samuel and Sally, b. March 10, 1804. 
Albert, s. " b. Nov. 8, 1810. 

Jeremiah C, s. " b. July 4, 1812. 

Peter M., s. " b. April 24, 1815. 

Maria C, d. " b. March 4, 1S17, d. Jan. 

27' 1S33. 
Chadwick, Susannah, d. Samuel and Sally, b. May 16, 1804. 
Caroline, d. " b. Dec. 17, 1805. 

Laban M., s. " b. May 13, 1807. 

Edmund S., s. " b. March 10, 1809. 

Albert, s. " b. Nov. 8, 1810. 

Sarah A., d. " b. Feb. 15, 1S21. 

Loisa, d. " b. May 3, 1823; 

d. Feb. 4, 1848. 



I09 

Chadwick, Cvrus. s. Edmund and Susannah, b. Oct. 2. iSoi. 
Alon/.o C. s. Jame^ and Bctscv. h. Feb. 10, iSio. 
Louise M.. d. •• b. .\pril 12. iSiJ : d. 

April 13. I Si 6. 
Cynthia, d. " b. Dec. 9. 1S13 : d. Oct. 

3, 1S14. 
Charles J., s. " b. Sept. 9, 1S15 ; il. April 

5, 1S16. 
Charles J., s. •• b. Sept. 11. 1S21. 

Calvin M.. s. Joseph and Judith, b. Julv 15. 1S13. 
Eunice, d. * b. July 17, 1S22. 

Hale, s. I.aban M. and ILli/a II.. b. Oct. 3, 1S41. 
John, s. •• b. April 24, 1S43. 

Harriet, d. b. April 27, 1S45. 

(ieorge, s. Jeremi.di C anil Abby C, b. Julv 7. 1S46. 
Asa C, s. '* b. .\pril 20, 1S4S. 

Cyrus \\'.. s. Ciiarlfs J. and Eliza J., b. Jan. 23, 1S51. 
Henry, s. Peter M. and Marv, b. April 21. iS:;i. 
Chandler. Judith, d. Nathan and .Susannah, b. Fel). 16, 177S. 
Sally, d. •• b. March 30, i 7S0, 

John. s. Lieut. luhn and Naomi, b. Oct. 2^, 17S0. 
Nathan, s •• b. April 14. 17S2. 

Ephraim. s. " b. ,^ept. 4, 17S4; d. 

March I 2, iH^y. 
Tollv. d. '• b. Sept. 3, 17S6. ' 

Susannah, d. '* b. Dec. 7, 17SS. 

Juditli. d. '• b. March 19, 1793: d. 

Nov. 2. 1S43. 
Kliod.i, (1. " b. Jidy 10. 1799. 

Al)i.il K.. s. N;itli;m and Jane, b. Au^. 25. 1S05. 
Ju.iith W.. ,i. " b. Aug. 5. 1S07. 

Naomi 1'.. il. •» b. Dec. 5, 1S09. 

Nathan, s. " h. June 12. 1S12. 

Harriet, d. " b. July 10, 1S15. 

Sarah IL. d. '• b. Aug. 10, 1817. 

W illiam 1'.. >. *' b. Nov. 27. 1S20. 

I<o\a, d. John J. ami I•Ii^cilla. b. March 7. 1S07; d. Jan. 

3. iSoS. 
Priscilla K., d. '• b. Sept, 27, 1S09. 



I lO 

Chadvvick, Sally K., d. John J. and Priscilla, b. April 2, 

1811. 

Philip T-, s. Ephraim and Tabitha, b. Oct. 3i, 1814. 

Henry W., s. Abial R, and Eliza J., b. Aug. 2, 1830. 

Catherine F., d. " b. Dec. 4, 1831. 

Ann R., d. *• " b. April 11. 1837. 

Cheney, Orramel F., s. Elias E. and Lucy, b. Nov. 4, 1836. 

Frances K., d. '^ b. Aug. 12, 1828. 

Samuel F., s. " b. Dec. i, 1829. 

Choate, Chandler, s. Samuel and Betty, b. Aug. 15, 1794. 

Samuel, s. " b. March 18, 1769. 

Royal, s. Samuel and Nancy, b. June 12, 1796. 

Betsey, d. " b. Dec. 19, 1797. 

Anna, d. " b. April 13, 1800. 

Maria, d. " b. Aug. I3, 1802. 

Nancy, d. " b. Oct. 22, 1804. 

David, s. Royal and Hannah, b. Nov. 28, 1827; d. Feb. 

22, 1833. 

Samuel, s. " b. Feb. 34, 1830. 

Clark, Mary, d. Daniel and Mehetabel, b. April 9, 1770. 

Sarah, d. " b. Aug. 24, 1773. 

Mehetabel, d. " b. Aug. 22, 1774; d. 

April 17, 1837. 

Mary, d. Paul and Phebe, b. Sept. 30, 1800. 

Elijah, s. Aaron and Susan, b. Nov. i, 1804, in Barnstead. 

Caleb H., s. Sally Morse, b. March 2, 1815. 

Timothv. s. Nehemiah and Rebekah, b. Nov. 10, 1820. 

Louisa, d. " b. March 31, 1823. 

Fanny, d. " b. Jan. 14, 1825. 

Nehemiah, s. " b. April 24, 1827. 

Ednah P., d. " b. Jan. 19, 1830. 

Warren, s. " b. Nov. 18, 1833. 

Ann R.,d. " b. May 10, 1838. 

Charles T., s. Elijah and Rachel, b. March i, 1834, at 

Lowell. 

Mary H., d. Timothy and Maria, b. Dec. 30, 1847. 
Clement, Joseph E., s. John and Lucinda, b. Feb. 19, 1823. 

Charles P., s. ' " b. Oct. 10, 1825. 

Clough, James, s. Stephen and Betsy, b. Oct. 25, 1799- 



1 1 1 

Clough, Phinehas, s. Stephen and Betsy, b. Nov. 19, iSoo, d. 

March 21, iSi i. 
Jeremiah, s. " b. June 27, 1S02, d. 

Aug. 14, 1S03. 
Hosea, s. '* b. Marcli 4, 1S05. 

Jeremiah, s. " b. Sept. 4, 1S06. 

Mary, d. " b. May 7, iSoS. 

William, s. " b. June 2. 1810. 

Stephen W.. s. " b. Mav 2, 1S12. 

Timothy E., s. " b. March 27. 1S14. 

Phineas, s. " b. March 24. 1S17. 

Stillman, s, '• b. Jan. 9, 1S20. 

Almina, d. William and Sophronia A. .\I.. b. Oct. 3. 1S44. 
Sarah A., d. ** " b. Sept. 5, 

1S46. 
ICnu-lin-- IV, (I. •' ** b. June 16, 

1848. 
Jnli.i K.. d. " " b. Mar. 23, 

1850. 
Coftin, I'ctcr. g. Peter and Rebekah, b. April 20. 1770. 
Kebekah, *' b. Oct. Z2, 1771. 

Joanna, d. '* b. .April 11. 1773. 

Abijjail, d. " b. March 26, I77>. 

Thomas, s. *' b. Jidy 15. 1777, <1. April 

21. 1S53. 
Moses, 9. *' b. July 22, 177'). d. Scjit. 

5. 1854. 
Apphia. d. '• b. Aug. 8, 17S1, d. Dec. 

Polly, d. M 'v.^ ,iiul II.uiM.di. b. Aug. 23. 1794, il. June 

14. 1S13. 

,]^^^^^- d. " b. Oct. 22, 1795. d. Oct. 

14, 1S25. 

Rebekali, d. Moses J. and .Susannah, b. March 13, 1S04. 

Susannah, d. " b. Nov. 24. 1S18. 

Lucy Jane, d. Moses and Susannah, b. July 9, iSov 

Peter, s. »• b. March 26, iSo«. 

Ju. litli II.. d. " b. May 7, iSio, d. 

June 25, 1852. 



I 12 



Coffin, Ephraim F., s. Moses and Susannah, b. March i6, 1813. 
Nehemiah C, s. " b. March 24, 1S15. 

Esther E., d. " b. May 6, 1821, d. 

Oct. 38, 1S43. 
Joseph H., s. Moses and Anna, b. July 11, 1815. 
Jeremiah W* s. " b. March 8, 1S17, d. Feb. 

20, 1842. 
Francis B., s. " b. Oct. 27, 1818, d. Oct. 

29, 1825. 
Enoch, s. Thomas and Hannah, b. April 28, 1808, d. 

Oct. 13, 1S15. 



John, s. 
Apphia C, s. 
Mary K., d. 
Frederick W., s. 
Enoch, s. 
Elvira, d. 
Livonia, d. 

Charles Carleton, s. 



b. Septi 2, 1S09. 
b. Dec. 6, 1810. 
b. Nov. 12, 1812. 
b. May 28, 1S15. 
b. March 5, 1817. 
b. Aug. 8, 1819. 
b. Aug. 8, 1819, d. 

Sept. 6, 1820. 
b. July 26, 1823. 
Warren C, s. Frederick W. and Harriet, b. Feb. 25, 1844. 
Harriet N.,d. " " b. Sept. 26, 1846. 

Edwin D., s. Enoch and Emily, b. Sept. 12, 1843. 
Sarah A., d. " b. Jan. 9, 185 1, d. April 

7, 1851. 
Sarah C, d. Peter and Eunice, b. April 3, 1836, d. Feb. 

12, 1837. 
George, s. " b. Dec. 9, 1S37. 

Sarah E., d. " b. Dec. 9, 1S41. 

Esther P., d. " b. Dec. 15, 1843. 

Francis H., s. Joseph H. and Mary E., b. Jan. 26, 1843. 
John, s. Farnum and Judith G., b. June 9, 1846. 
Clara A., d. " b. Jan. 18, 1850. 

Cogswell, Rachel, d. Nehemiah and Rachel, b. Oct. 9, 1772, d. 

Dec. 29, 1853. 
Susannah, d. " b. Sept. 17, 1774. 

Margarett, d. " b. Dec. 3, 1776. 

Nehemiah, s. " b. Nov. 30, 1778, 

d. Mar 16,1843. 



I I 



Cogswell. John. s. Nclicmiali and Raciiel. h. July 25, 17S1. 



Polly, d. 

Riitii, d. " 

Sally, d. 

Abigail, d. John C. and ICli/a W. 

Charles E.. s. 

Harriet P.. d. 

Caroline I*., tl. 

Mary. d. John and Mary, b. July 24, 1822. 

Lvdia C. d. Francis and Elizabeth, b. April 12. 1S19. d. 



b. Feb. 28, 17S4. 

b. June 19, 17S6. 

b. Oct. 8. 1790. 
b. Aug. 20. 1S22. 
b. Jan. 29. 1824. 
b. April 1 8, 1S27. 
b. Aug. 26. 1S30. 



Aug. 



1 8 20. 



Sophia C d. " b. June 9, 1S22. 

Amos C. s. *• b. Sept. 29. 1S24. 

Lydia C, d. *• b. Jan. 19, 1S27. d. 

Dec. 26, 1829. 
George W .. -. b. June 3, 1829. 

Lydia H.. d. •• b. March 7, 1S32. 

Frances A., d. " b. June 5, 1834. 

Jtiseph .S.. s. •• b. Oct. 29, 1836. 

Corscr, Asa. s. William and Anna, b. Jan. 26, 1754. 
Jesse, s. " b. April 16. 1756. 

Mary. d. b. Aug. 1, 1759, d. Ajiril 

14, 1834. 
Sinui'K, >. b. July lo. 1763. 

Judith, b. b. Jan. 29. 1766. 

James, s. Thomas and Anna. b. Nov. 12, 1764. 
Mary, d. •• b. Aug. 24. 1766 

Jane. d. " b. Oct. 23, 1768. 

Jonathan, s. '• b. Nov. 9, 1770. d. Nov. 30, 

1 83 1. 
Anna. d. •• b. June 15. 1773. <i. June 

12. 1816, by lightning. 
Thomas, s. •• b. Mav 10, 1775. 

Sarah. (1. •• b. March 17. 1777. 

Tabitha, d. • !>. Sept. 7, 1779. 

Moses, s. • 1). .Sept. 28, 17S1, d. April 

14, 1830. 
Mary. d. John and Jane. b. May 24, 1765. 

Jonathan, s. Jona. and Lucy, b. Nov. 29, 1771. 

8 



114 

Corser, Thomas, s. Jona. and Lucy, b, Oct. 4, 1773. 
Lucy, d. " b. June 14, 1776. 

Josiah, s. " b. July 2, 1781. 

Polly, d. " b. April 11, 17S4. 

Benj., s. " b. Oct. 4, 17S7. 

Daniel, s. Jotin and Rachel, b. Feb. 28, 1775, ^' J^^J 2^' 

1853, at Portland, Me. 
John, s. " b. May 24, 1777. 
David, s. " b. March 15, 1779. 
Rachel, d. " b. April, 9, 17S1, d. Nov. 19, 

1854, in Salisbury, N. H. 
Ryce, s. " b. Sept. 28, 1783, d. May 11, 

1852. 
Joseph, s. " b. Feb. 7, 1786. 

Timothy, s. " b. March 9, 178S, d. Sept. 6, 

1819. 
Edward, s. " b. Aug. 18, 1790. 

Richard, s. " b. Aug. 16, 1792, d. Aug. 

20, 1845. 
Else, d. Thomas and Mary, b. March 28. 1783, d. Sept. 

12, 1843. 
Caleb, s. " b. Sept. 3, 1785, d. Nov. 15, 

1825. 
David, s. David and Ruth, b. March 22, 1781. 
Rachel, d. " b. Sept. 21, 1800. 

Bernice, d. John, Jr., and Mehetable, b. July 21, 1802. 
Mehetable C, d. " b. Oct. 18, 1804 ; 

d.Oct. 7, 1829. 
Mary, d. " b. July 23, 1807. 

John, s. " b. Oct. 15, 1809. 

Phebe, d. " b. April 26, 1816. 

Eunice W., d. " b. May 17, 1818. 

Daniel B., s. Richard and Rhoda, b. Oct. 18, 1818. 
Austin G., s. " b. March i, 1820. 

Judith P.. d. Joseph and Else, b. Nov. 9, 1S15. 
Bill, s. '^ b. Jan. 26, 1S18. 

Ursula, d. " b. Oct. 25, 1820. 

Nancy A., d. " b. Sept. 29, 1823. 

Elizabeth B., d. Amos and Betsey, b. Aug. 8, 1820. 



1 1 



Corser. \c\vlII J., s. Amos :uul Betsey, b. Dec. ^7. 18^4; d. 

Jan. 21. 1S29. 
Rebecca A., tl. •• b. Jul\ 30. 1S27. 

Joseph C s. Luke and Mary. b. Nov. 23. 1S24; d. Oct. 

13. 1843. 
Francis H.. s. •• b. Jan. 10. 1827. 

David \\'.,s. •• b. Aug. 19. 1829: il. May 

25' "S33. 
David B.. s. '* b. Sept. 21. 1S35. 

Bliss W'.. s. Bliss and Hannah, b. May 29. 1826. 
Ariadna A., d. I'leeman and Harriet.!). Oct. 24, 1S34. 
Sarepta, d. '• b. Sept. 21. 1836. 

Hamilton, s. " b. Aug. 17. 1S38. 

Hamlet, s. " b. May 13. 1843. 

David S.. s. ♦' b. Aug. 6, 1847. 

John C. s *• b. Feb. 9, 1849. 

Athertnn I'., s. Kice. .;d. and .'^arah J., b. Nov. 28. 1S44; 

d. Mar. 18, 1846. 
Joseph H.. s. •• li. .May 4. 1S47. 

Rebecca, d. James and M.iitha. b. Oct. 24. I 7S7 ; d. Dec. 

S. 1S15. 
John, s. *' b. Jnl\ 13. 1791. 

Amos. s. " b. July iv '793- 

David S.. s. Davit! Corser and Jane Gerald. 1). Feb. 23, 

I 799 : d. Jan. 13, 1S08. 
Betty, d. David and Kulh. b. March 19, 1777. 
Rnt!i,d. •• 1). March 10. 1779- 

Hannah, d. •• b. I-'eb. 2. 1783: d. 1S29, at 

Amesbury. 
Molly. (1. •• h. Dec. 20. 17S4. 

Enoch, s. *• b. Jan. 2, 1787. 

Silas, s. '* b. Jan. 14, 1789: d. March 19, 

184S. 
Jane. d. *• b. Jan. 11. 1791. 

Lulve, s. '• b. March 10, 1793. 

Bliss, s. *• 1). Au<^. 30. 1795. 

Betty, d. '' b. June 4. 179S. 

Lucy, d. Daniel and Lucy, h. Feb. 13, 1802, in Thetford, Vt. 
Solomon T., s. " b. Dec. 24. 1806. " 



ii6 

Corser, Heniy F., s. Daniel and Lucy, b. Jan. 20, 1809, in 

Thetford, Vt. 
Gardner, s. David and Judith, b. Dec. 29, iSoi. 
Caleb, s. " b, Oct. 14, 1S03. 

Ruth, d. ^ " b. Oct. 2, 1805. 

Francis S., s. "■ b. June 25, 1808. 

Eunice P., d. " b. Nov. 25, 1810. 

Elbridge B., s. Silas and Sarah, b. Jan. 18, 1812. 
Emeline, d. *^' b. July 9, 1814. 

Ruth, d. " b. Oct. 13, 1816. 

Ruth K., d. David, Jr., and Abigail, b. Dec. iS, 1S17. 
Anna E., d. Timothy and Abiah, b. April i, 1S16. 
Louisa, d. " b. Dec. 25, 1818. 

Charles H., s. " b. May 19, 1827. 

George L., s. " b. May 19, 1S27. 

Fitz-Henry, s. Charles H. and Mary [., b. March 20, 

1850. 
Marcia Q., d. Rice and Abigail O., b. Feb. 27, 1827 ; d. 

Aug. 18, 1850. 
Octavia E., d. " b. March 27, 1830; 

d. May 9, 1853. 
Sarah J., d. " b. March 22, 1832; 

d. March 24, 1848. 
Elisabeth J., d. " b. Jan. 6, 1S34; d. 

July 13, 1S54. 
Abby S., d. Rice and Irene, b. May 31, 1838. 
Edwin G., s. " b. April 17, 1840. 

John H., s. " b. May 7, 1S43 ; d. July n, 

1S43. 
Daniel B., s. Richard and Rhoda, b. Oct. 8, 1818. 
Austin G., s. '' b. March 1, 1S20. 

Ann M., d. " b. July 21, 1827. 

Charles H., s. " b. June 3, 1829. 

Mary J., d. " b. Sept. 20, 1S31. 

Lucretia S., d. " b. Oct. 25, 1S33. 

Couch, Nath'l Heath, s. Benj. and Rachel, b. Nov. 5, 1777; 

d.July 10, 1844. 
Joseph, s. " b. Jan. 10, 1780; 

d. Aug. I, 1S32. 



1 1 



Couch, Rciijamin. s. Benj. and Rachel, h. March S. 178^; d. 

Aug. 9, 1S35. 
Samuel, s. '• b. Jan. >S. 17S9. 

^■'^^h' tl. " b. "Feb. 5. 1796; d. 

Mar. 3. 1S27. 
Enoch, s. Joseph and Sarah, b. Nov. z\. 17S5: d. Au'^. 

iS. 17S.,. 
•'^''">- ^'- •• b. Aucf. 22. 17S7: (I. [unc 

7. 1S52. 
Joseph, s. •• b. May 22, 1 7S9 : d. Sept. 

10. 1 85 I. at Nashua. 
Enoch, s. •• b. April 12. 1793. 

Phebe, d. •• b. July 2. 1798: d. Sept. 

22. 1S56. 
Nancy A..d. Nalh'l II. and Eli/abeth, b. Jan. 15. iSoi. 
Polly <^'' <!• •• b. Dec. S. 1S05, (1. 

Dec. 29. 1S23. 
.f"'"' <' • ^ I). Apr. 26. 1S09. 

Sanniel D.. s. Joseph and Mecle, b. Jan. 30, 1S06. 
Joseph L.. s. «' b. Feb. 19, 1810. 

Kli/a. d. '» b. Ja„. 8. 1S14. 

Henianiin. s. •' b. .Apr. 3. 1S17. 

'"^J";'''. «!• " b. Feb. .|. 1820. 

Gcrrish. s. '» b. July 2, 1825. d. N..v. 

20. 1S46. 
Eunice T., d. Joseph and Sarah, b. July 4. iSto. 
Prcscott. s. nenjamin and .'^ally. b. Ma\ 27. iSixj. d. Apr. 



J allies .S., s. 

AtiKts A., s. 

Plunier, s. 

Rachel, d. 

Benjamin C. s. 

Ilarriman. s. 

Caleb K., s. 

Ilalc. s. Amos ami II; 

EiMiice. d. 
Ciiarlotte. d. 



b. May 7. iSi I . 
b. June 23. iSl ^. 
b. Feb. 8. 1818. 
b. May 22. 1S20. 
b. ."Nept. 19, 1822. 
b. May 20. 182^. 
b. June 1 1, 1S29. 
mnaii. b. May 26. 1814. d. Aug. 29, 

b. March 15. iSiS. 
b. April I 2. 182^. 



ii8 

Couch, Enoch P., s. Joseph and Mehetabel, b. Jan. 26, 1819. 
Henry J., s. Samuel D. and Hannah, b. April 23, 1831. 
Walter S., s. " b. Sept. 22, 1837. 

Clara J., d. " b. Aug. 17, 1844. 

Joseph, s. Enoch and Jane O., b. May 22, 1837. 
Mary S., d.* " b. June 12, 1844. 

Nancy E., d. '^ b. Feb. 12, 1835. 

George P., s. Prescott and Jane, b. Feb. 10, 1835, d. July 

15. 1S37. 
Infant child of John G. and Eliza, b. May 10, 1844, d. May 

1 1, 1844. 
Nath'l D., s. John G. and Eliza C, b. July 23, 1846. 
John B., s. '' b. Aug. 26, 1849. 

Colby, Ann C, d. Joseph and Hannah, b. April 24, 1S12. 

Ann, d. John and Phebe, b. April 3, 1830. 
Conner, Asa, s. Asa and Ruth, b. March 26, 1803. 
David, son James and Sukey, b. Nov. 13, 1813. 
Lucinda, d. " b. June 20, 1816. 

Crosby, Josiah B., s. Hale and Mary, b. Jan. 2, 1842. 
Currier, Sarah M., d. Thomas H. and Sarah A., b. March 22, 

1 847, d. Oct. 
7, 1849. 
Sarah L., d. " b. June 12, 

1849. 
Danforth, Mary, d. William and Olive, b. Nov. 22, 1772. 
Enoch, s. " b. Oct. 19, 1774. 

Ruth, d. " b. Feb. 20, 1777. 

William, s. " b. Jan, 22, 1780, d. 

Sept. 24, 1846. 
John, s. " b. Dec. 18, 1785, d. 

Feb. 18, 1850. 
Edmund, s. " b. July 8, 1791 , d. Oct. 

24, 1854. 
Stephen, s. Simeon and Jemima, b. Aug. 22, 1792, d. 

March 21, 1852. 
Anna, d. Jedldiah and Sarah, b. May 5, 1772- 
Peter, s. " b. April 26, 1774. 

Jedidiah, s. " b. April 26, 1777, d. Aug. 

Aug. 2, 1827. 



119 



Danforth. Natlian. s. Jedidiah and Sarah, b. Aug. 28. 1779. 
Sarah, d. '* h. June ^, 17S1, d. 

Aug. 20, 1 84 1. 
Jonathan S.. s. " b. May 11, 17S3. 

Polly, d. " b. Jan. iS, 17S7. 

Abiah, d. " b. March 21. 17S9. 

Rix. 8. " b. Mav 25. 

Willis, s. Jedidiah and Lydia. b. June 13. 1794. 
Amos G., s., •* b. Nov. 30. 1796. 

Jeci, s. Jedidiah ami R.icliel. b. M.ty 27. iSa;^. 



I 791 



b. July I . i8<>^. 

b. July 31. 1807. il. Ai)ril 

12. 1846. 
b. Sept. 6. 1809. 
b. .^ept. 6. 1S09. 
b. June 23. iSio. 
b. Dec. 22, 1820. d. 

3, 1852. 
b. Nov. 6, 1S27, d. 1S51 



June 



Nathan C. s. 
John M.. s. 

Sarah Rix. d. 
Rachel C. d. 
Charlotte S.. d. »' 

Prentice S, s. »* 

Harriet A., d. 

John P.. s Willi iijij. and Betsey, b. Oct. 5. iSi i 

Polly,.!. •• b. Feb. 3, 1S15. d. June 

19. 1853. 
Taniexin. d. *' b. March 7. 1817. 

Albert, s. '• b. Dec. 2t, 1S19. 

William, s. •• b. May 22, 1823. 

Lucy. d. .Simeon and Judith, b. Jan. 16. 1802, in Rowley. 
Judith, il. '* h. Julv 22. 1804. 

Dcbby. d. " b. Nov. y, 1S06. 

Eli/.ai.eth S.. d. •• b. April 30, 1S08. 

Sails S.. (I. •• b. Sept. 10, 1809. 

Molly S.. d. •• b. Sept. 10. 1S09. 

AlmiraJ.,d. '• b. April 8, 181 2. 

Emily, d. *• b. July 3, 1814. 

Amos. s. *' b. July 3. 1S14. d. Sept. is, 

1816. 
Minerva, d. " b. June 17, 1816. 

Betsy C. d. Rix and Abigail, b. Sept. 13. 1819. 
Timothy C. s. •• b. Feb. 10, 1825. 

Josephine B.. d. " b. Oct. 25. 1842. 



I20 



Danforth, Haman, s. Edmund and Rhoda, b. Dec. 21, 1819. 



b. Sept. 3, 1S21, d. 

June 21, 1834. 
b. May 4, 1824. 
b. May 6, 1827. 
b. Aug. 17, 1829. 
b. Nov. 14, 1 83 1, 
b. Jan. 12, 1S34. 
b. March 11, 1S43. 



Rhoda, d. 

Enoch, s. 

Geo. S., s. ^ 

Reuben, s. 

Charles S.. s. 

Edmund, s. 

Rhoda R., d. 

Orpha, d. William and Betsy, b. Jan. 23, 1S27, d. Aug. 

9, 1848. 
George H., s. Jedediah and Aurelia, b. Feb. 5, 1830. 
Aurelia J., d. " b. May 8, 1832. 

Ednah E., d. " b. March i, 1S35, d, 

June 13, . 

Ruth A., d. '' b. Nov. 17, 1837. 

Orrin, s. John and Bernice, b. June 5, 1831. 
Mehetable C.,d. " b. Oct. 16, 1834. 

Sarah P., d. Nathan C. and Sophia C, b. June 8, 1836. 
Sylvester P., s. '' b. Aug. 14, 183S. 

Celeste S., d. " b. June 18, 1840. 

Horace H., s. " b. March 29, 1842. 

Silvanus. s. " b. July 4, 1844. 

John P., s. John B. and Dorothy, b. July 24, 1837. 
Rebecca P., d. " b. Aug 21, 1839. 

Charles H., s. " b. June 8, 1841. 

Enoch E., d. " b. May 4. 1844. 

Nancy A., d. Enoch and Melissa J., b. Jan. 21. 1851. 
Pitts A., s. Albert and Mary A., b. June 7, 1849. 
Davis, William, s. Ephraim and Sarah, b. Dec. 7, 1748. 
Ephraim, s. " b. Oct. 15, 1751. 

Hannah, d. " b. July 27, 1755. 

John, s. " b. Aug. 25, 1757. 

James, s. " b. June 11, 1761. 

Tabitha, d. " b. Peb. 10, 1768. 

James, s. Nicholas and Mary, b. Aug. 24, 1770- 
Nane, d. " b. Mar. 12, 1772. 

Joseph, s. " b. April 9, 1774. 

Isaac, s. " b. Dec. 17, i777* 



121 



Davis, Sarah, d. Nicholas antl Mary. b. Sept. 5. 1779. 

Mary. d. ** l>. Mar. 26. 17S1. 

Elisabeth, d. Xatlian and Jane, !>. Jan. 6, 1773. 

Tabitha. d. b. Jan. 5, 1775. 

Nathan, s. *• b. Feb. i. 1777. 

Samuel, s. '* b. Oct. 23. 177S. 

lane. d. • b. July S, 17S1. 

l*ain, s. .Nathan and Molly, b. Feb. 3, 1795. 

Ilermon, s. Oliver and Mary, b. Aii<j. 25, 1796. 

JoiiRT J.. ''. Nathan and Molly, b. Mar. 24. 1797. 
. Orrtey, d. " b. July 4. 1799. 

Clarissa, d. Oliver and Polly, b. Jan. 14, 1794. 

Harm<»n, s. b. Aii<j. 25. 1797. 

Vern(.-y, s. b. Dec. 31, 1799- 

s. Charles F. and Ellen, b. Jan. 13, 1S52. 
Dav, Sarah, d. Benjamin and wife, b. Au«;. 29. 1767, d. 1S17. 

KdmiMul, s. n.mltl and J.iml-. b. March 24, 17S9, d. 1S12. 



Henjamin, »>. 
Jane, d. 
Polly, d. 
James, s. 
Elijah, s. 
Harriet, d. 
Harrison, s. 



b. Jan. 10. 1792. 
b. Iid\ 20. 1 7«>4. 
b. June 14. 1 7i><». 

b. Jul\ 14. |S<K). 

b. March 4, 1S02. 
b. Dec. 17, 1S04. 
b. Oct. 6, 1S06, .1. Jan. 16. 
1S45. 



Wilson, s. ** b. Jan. 2, iSio. 

Eliza, d. " b. Sei)l. 3. 1S12. 

Dolly, d. Asa and Hannah, b. May 7. 1794. 
Alonzo, s. Wilson an«l Sarah, b. Feb. 25. i!S33. 
Melissa, d. ' b. May 4. 1S34. 

Willard, s. b. June 2T,, 1S36. 

Alonzo. s. b. April 2. 1S3S. 

Sarah, il. b. May 24. 1840. 

Harriet, d. b. Sept. 25. 1S41. 

Sniitli. s. •• b. Jan. 17, 1S44. 

Mary E., d. b. Jan. 5. 1S46. 

George, s. • b. Aug. 17. 1S4S. 

Arabcll. d. H.irrison and Philena, b. March 14. 1S35. 
LucyH..d. " b. July 3. 1S3S. 



122 

Day, James H., s. Harrison and Philena, b. April i8, 1840. 
John T., " b. Apr. 9, 1842. 

Martha, d. " b, Jan. 28, 1S44, d. 

Feb. 22, 1844. 
Mary, d. " b. Jan. 28, 1844, d. 

*Feb. 22, 1844. 
Dix, Roger S., s. Timothy and Lucy, b. July 7, 1810. 
Timothy B., s. " b. Jan. 21, 1812. 

Catharine H., d. " b. May 19, 1813. 

Abigail, d. Timothy and Abigail, b. Nov. 19, 1792, d. 

May 9, 1852. 
Rachel, d. " b. April 18, 1794. 

Timothy, s. " b. Feb. 11, 1796. 

Dodge, Mary, d. Paul and Jane, b. Nov. 5, 1800, d. Nov. 16, 

1836. 
Martha, d. " b. Jan. 8, 1S03. 

Eliza, d. " b. Jan. 12, 1806. 

Henry L., s. " b. July 19, 1814. 

Lucy, d. Henry L. and Mary S., b. Feb. 14, 1843. 
Emma, d. " b. Nov. 18, 1846. 

Dow, Betsey A., d. Lorenzo S. and Mary A., b. Dec. 5, 

1849. 
Downer, Sarah, d. Samuel and Sarah, b. July 16, 1809, d. 

Oct. 22, 1850. 
Anna, d. " b. Feb. 15, 181 1. 

Mary, d. " b. May 14, 1813, d. 

April 26, 1829. 
Elizabeth, d. " b. Dec. 22, 1819. 

Downing, Caleb, s. Jonathan and Nancy, b. Jan 20, 1793- 

Elsie, d. " b. Oct. 18, 1794, d. 

Sept. 20, 1847. 
Sally, d. " b. Sept. 22, 1796, d. 

June3, 1S47. 
Mary, d. " b. Nov. 7, 1798. 

Nancy, d. " b. Oct. 29, 1800. 

Dorothy, d. " b. Aug. 6, 1S03, ^• 

Feb. 1 1, 1840. 
Jonathan, s. " b. Dec. 3, 1807. 

Samuel, s. " b. Oct. 25, 1812. 



Downiii}^, Dorothy, d. Jona. and Anna, h. Aiifj. 6. 1S03, d 

Feb. I 1 . 1 S40. 
Ruth, d. Jonathan and Ruth. b. Aug. ly. 1S17. 

b. Mar. 15, 1S20 
.8,3. ■ 



Joshua, s. 
Susan, d. 



d. Nov.. 
d. Nov., 



d. Fob. 



b. Dec. II, 1S.-2 

1S23. 
b. Dec. 25, 18.13. 
b. June 25, 1S25 
b. May 10, 1S2S. 
b. Oct. 4, 1830. 
b. Jan. 12, 1834 
20, 1849. 
shiia ami .'^.ir.di ).. b. Feb. 2.\, 184^. 
1>. June 21, 1S4S. 
s. John ami L\dia. b. July 20, 1 790, in 
Sanliornton. 
Horace J., s. Sanuicl M. and Hannali. 1). fune 20, 1S17. 
Susan P., d. " b. Mav 19. 1S20. 

Sarah A., d. »' b. May 14, 1822. 

Isaac P., s. " b. June 8, 1S26. 

K/ekiel W'.. s. ** b. June 15. 1831. 

Eastman, William, s. Joseph and Eli/.nbcth, b. Feb. 12, 1758. 
.Saraii, d. Timotliv and Hannah, b. J:in. 2. 1760. 



Joshua, s. 
Hiram, s. 
Daniel, s. 
Abi-ail, d. 
Mari. d. 

Martha ].. . 
William" 11., 
Dui|,'iii. >amui.l 



M. 



Hannah, d. 
Friscilla, .1. 



Thomas, s. " 

Lydia, d. " 

Dolly, d. ♦* 

Enoch, s. '♦ 

Pearsons, s. ♦' 

Timothy, s. ♦' 

Jonathan, s. '* 

Jeremiah, s. Benjamin and Susannah, b. July 20. 175S. 

Elisabeth, d. '* b. Sept. 19. 1761. 

Johnson, s. " b. March 15, 1762. 

Susanna, d. ♦» b. Aug. 4, 1766. 

Ezra, s. '♦ b. June 4, 1769. 



1). May 9, I 761 . 
b. .May 9, 1763, d. 
April 17. 1S37. 
b. Nov. I . I 764. 
1). .\u;,'. 25, 1766. 
b. .May II, 176S. 
b. Mar. 31, 1770. 
b. Oct. 6, 1772. 
b. Dec. 29, I 776. 
b. .Sept. 17, 1778. 



124 

Eastman, Enoch, s. Benjamin and Susannah, b. Oct. 26, 1772- 
Amos, s. " b. Dec. 29, 1774. 

Hannah, d. " b. March 18, 1777. 

Benjamin, s. " b. June 22, 17S1, 

at Newport, 
Susannah, d. " b. March 6, 1784, 

at Newport. 
Nathan, s. Johnson and Sally, b. Sept. 29, 1791, at New- 
port. 
William E., s. Phinehas and Susannah, b. Dec. 24, 1795. 
Abel, s. Thomas and Lois, b. Aug. 24, 1797, d. May 21, 

1828. 
Lydia, d. " b. April 29, 1800, d. June 15, 

1837. 
Daniel, s. William and Mehitable, b. April 23, 1799. 
Jane, d. " b. Nov. 9, iSoi. 

Bartlett, s. Timothy, Jr., and Dorothy, b. March 24, 

iSoo. 
Hannah R., d. " b. April 5, 1802. 

Dorothy, d. " b. June 7, 1803. 

Sally, d. Jonathan and Svisannah, b. March 8, 1805. 
Enoch, s. Pearson and Martha, b. Aug. 17, 1790, d. April 

16, 181S. 
Isaac, s. " b. Sept. 17, 1800. 

Edmond, s. " b. April 8, 1807. 

Sarah, d. " b. March i, 1808. 

George K., s. " b. June 19, 1813. 

Charlotte, d. Enoch and Betsy, b. Jan. 5, 1805, in New- 
bury, Mass. 
William, s. " b. Feb. 28, 1807, in New- 

bury, Mass. 
Enoch, s. Enoch and Judith, b. May 26, 1809, in New- 
bury, Mass. 
Betsey, d. " b. July 23, iSio, in New- 

bury, Mass. 
Daniel C, s. " b. July 15, 1812. 

Timothy, s. '" b. Nov. 22, 1814. 

Judith, d. " b. Sept. 27, 1816. 

Moses, s. " b. Sept. 30, 1819. 



125 

Eastman. Dorcas A., d. Enoch anil Judith, b. June 4. 1S23. d. 

Oct. 17. 1S25. 
Dorcas A.. <i. *' b. April 13, 1S25. 

.Sidia, d. Jona. and ."^ally. b. Oct. 15, iSoS. 
Caleb, s. Thomas and Lois, b. April 27, 1S09. 
Martha, tl. Jeremiah and Rebecca, b. Feb. 5, iSii. 
Amos, s. •• b. Feb. 17, 1S13. 

Abigail, d. Bradley and S.illy, b. March 20. 1S13. in 

New Chester. 
Dolly, d. •• b. Aug. 26, 1S15. in 

New Chester. 
Enoch F., s. John and Elisabeth, b. Sept. 21. 1S15. 
William, s. • b. Aug. 14, 1817. 

Eli/a H., d. b. July 5, 1S19. 

Percy Ann, d. b. July 24, 1821. 

John G., s. b. Sept. S, 1S23. 

I*hebe A , d. b. April 4, 1S27. 

Joseph H., s. *• l>. Aug. 8. 1829. 

Wiiixli.u C".. s. Mill iiui I\ .111.1 I)i.II\ . b. Jiujc 3, 1826. d. 

April 14, 1S54. 
Juiui, s. Daniel .lud Cuniluil, b. Jan. 31, 1S28. 
Elizabeth A., d. " b. May 16, 1829. 

Polly, d. William and Lois, b. April 19, 1835. 
Hiram, s. b. ."^ept. 17, 1S36. 

Elbridge (»., b. .'<ept. i. 1837. 

Mary E.. d. William and Mary. b. |an. 5, 1S50. 
Elliot. .Samuel, b. March 13, 1778. 

Judith, wife of Samuel, b. April 20, 1785. 

Samuel B., s. Samuel and Judith, b. .Sej)t. 7. iSoS, in 

Loudon. 
Marenda, d. " b. Sept. r9. 1810, in 

Loud«)M. 
M'.sis (',. s. *' b. Dec. II. iNij, ill 

Loudon. 
Cluirks 11.. s. •• b. May 17. 1821. in 

Louilon. 
William C, s. '• b. March 27, 1S24. 

John N.. s. " b. Nov. 18, 182^. 

Mary K.. d. " b. March 14. 1830. 



126 

Elliot, Ira, s. David and Susannah, b. Jan, ii, 1801. 
Caroline, d. " b. Aug. 9, 1S03. 

Lucinda, d. Joseph and Hannah, b. Aug. 4, 1802. 
Jeflerson, s. " b. June 16. 1804. 

Calvin, s. James Elliot and Widow Eastman, b. Mar, 11, 

1806. 
John, s. of William and Abigail, b. Feb, 23, 176S. 
Benjamin, s. Nicholas and Betty, b. May 11, 17S0. 
Nicholas, s. " b. Aug. 20, 1782. 

Count L., s, " b. June 14, 1786. 

Betty, d. " b. Aug. 24, 1788. 

John, s. Samuel and Mary, b. April 3, 1798. 
Gardner, s, " b. Oct. 2, 1801, 

Eliza, d, " b. Aug. 19, 1804, 

Harrison, s, Joseph and Hannah, b. Aug. 8, 1806. 
Sally M,, d. " b. Sept. 12, iSii. 

Joseph M. s. " b. March 16, 1816. 

Hannah M., d, " b. Feb. 15, 1833. 

Caroline, d. Mary Danforth and supposed Samuel Elliott, 

b, Dec. 6, 181 1. 
Catherine S., d. Mary Danforth and supposed Samuel 

Elliott, b. May 31, 1818. 
Benjainin, s, David and Sukey, b. May 25, iSii. 
Caroline, d. Enoch and Mary, b. Jan. 8, 1814. 
Miriam, d. " b. Sept, 22, 1S16. 

Emily, d. " b. Feb, 6, 1818, 

Mary A., d, " b. March 31, 1S20. 

Calvin, s. " b, June 26, 1822. 

Enoch, s. " b. Aug. 16, 1824, 

Bartlett, s. " b. Sept, 28, 1826, 

Melinda B,, d, " b. Oct, 18, 1829, 

Rhoda, d, Benjamin and Judith, b. Sept, 22, 1813. 
Parney, d, " b. Aug, 12, 18 15. 

Joseph, s, " b. Sept. 11, 1817. 

Sarah B., d, " b. July 11, 1819. 

Benjamin, s, " b, June 8, 1821. 

Phebe J,, d. " b. June 7, 1823. 

Dorcas C. d. " b. Aug. 28, 1825. 

Freeman, s. " b. Aug. 23, 1827. 



127 

Elliot. Lucy \\'.. d. Benjamin ami Jiulith. b. Sept. 23, 1S31, d. 

May 23, 1S33. 
Alfred, s. '• b. Sept. 5, 1S34. 

John G., 8. Rhoda, b. Dec. 17. 1S37. 
Malhew P., s. Moses and Sarah, b. Dec. 15. 1S17. 
Betsey, d. John, 2d, and Betsey, b. Dec. 5, 18 19. 
Chcllis, s. Luke and Olive, b. Aug. 11. 1S31. 
Mariah, d. William P. and Amanda, b. Ajiril 14. 1S44. 
Amanda P., d. William and Amanda, b. Nov. 4, 1S50. 
Dejjhton B., s. George J. and Marv, b. Aug. 23, 1S47. 
Abigail S., d. •• b. Nov. 7. 18^2. 

Frank 1*., s. Joseph R. and Angelee, b. Nov. 11. 1S52. 
Ells\v<irtli. \VilIi;iin (t . ^ ^ imucl and Ruth, b. Februarv 14, 

1830. 
Elkins, Abicl, s. Abicl and IClisabcth, b. Dec. 30, 17S2. 
Sherman T., s. Freeman and Ruth. b. Oct. 29, 1831. 
Esther A., d. '• b. Sept. 9, 1S35. 

Lovilla F., d. ♦» b. Oct. 25, 1837. 

Esther Ann, d. ♦♦ b. March 2Z, 1S40. 

Emerson, \\ in. II 11. s. Wm. (J. and Betsey, b. Jan. 19, 1808. 
Thomas P., s. " b. .Sept. 8, 1S14. 

Geo. N., s. Ly«ias and Betsey, b. June 14, 1837. tl. Jan. 

25- '855. 
M.uy A., »l. Ly>.i.i> ami Abigail (),. b. Nov. 10, 1842. 
Farmer, Moses G., s. John and Sally, b. Feb. 9, 1S20. 

Pa^i- l'\, s '' b. June 28, 182 I. .!. July 

27. 1822. 
Ji'hn 1'.. s. " b. Sept. 24, 1823. 

Sally K., d. ** b. Aug. 30, 1826. 

Jeremiah ().. s. •• b. June 7, 1S2S, d. Dec. 

6, 1828. 
Jane G.. d. " b. June 7. 1828, d. June 

27, 1867. 
Fandiani, Patty, d. Stejihcn and Susannah, b. Mav 10, 1797. 
Lucinda. d. *' b. Oct. 9, 179S. 

Fellows, Salome, d. He/ekiah and Pamela F., b. July 26, 1S07, 

d. Jan. 23, 1823, 
Inf.mt. s. ♦' b. July 11,1809, 

d. Sept. 30,1809. 



128 

Fellows, Catharine, d. Hezekiah and Pamela F.,b. Sept. 6, 1810, 

d. Mar. S, 1813. 
Ebenezer S., s. " b. MarchS, 1813, 

d. Oct, 21. 1829. 
John, s. " b. Oct 7, 1S15. 

Moses, s. ^ " b.March I i,iSi8, 

d.July 14, 1819. 
Catharine A., d. " b. May 6, 1820. 

Lucy Senter, d. " b. May 27, 1822, 

d. Oct. 4, 1846. 
George Riley, s. " b. April 19, 1824. 

Salome, d. " b. Aug. 25, 1827. 

Abigail T., d. David and Sophila, b. Nov. 12, 1823. 
Charles R.. s. " b. Oct. 13, 1827, d. July 

21, 1846. 
Sewell W., s. " b. Oct. 30, 1829, d. Oct. 

4, 1848. 
Henry L., s. " b. July 4, 1840, d. March 

I, 1 841. 
Henry L., s. " b. Jan. 25, 1843. 

Miriam B., d. Moses and Mehetable, b. March 16, 1S19. 
Caroline A., d. " b. Aug. 21, 1821. 

Charles M., s. " b. Dec. 16, 1S24. 

Mary J., d. James S. and Mary, b. June 13, 1822, d. June 

20, 1855. 
James C, s. " b. July 7, 1824. 

Augusta A., d. " b. Aug. 5, 1826. 

Franklin, s. " b. May 8, 1829, at Hamp- 

stead. 
Harris, s. " b. March 21, 1S35. 

Sarah A., d. Moses A. and Augusta, A., b. Oct. 10, 1847. 
Frank, s. " b. Oct. 16, 1S49. 

s. James and Eveline, b. Feb. 19, 1S52. 
s. Richard and Eliza, b. Feb. 28, 1852. 
Ferrin, Warren, s. Kezia Shepherd, b. June 6, 1823, 
Fiske, John, s. Benj. and Lydia, b. Aug. i, 1783, d. March 10, 

1836. 
Abigail, d. " b. Sept. 12, 1785, d. March 15, 

1826. 



I 29 

Fiske, Benjamin, s. Benj. ami Lydia. b. Dec. 22. 17S7. 

Betsey, d. " b. June ^1, 1792. 

James, s. " b. May 2, 1794. 

Epiiraim. s. '' b. June 9. 1795. 

Asa. s. •• h. Marcb 15, 1797. 

LyJia, <i. David and Lydia, b. Oct. 24. 1792. 

Elisabeth, d. " b. May 21. 1796. 

Thomas E.. s. Thomas J. and Charlotte, b. Oct. S. 1S36, 

Rachel M., d. Benjamin C and Sarah R.. 1). Mav 8, 1S3S. 

Jane G.. d. •• b. May 13, 1S40. 

Fitts. Charles, s. Cyrus and Elisabeth, b June 25, 1S45. 

Amos, s. " b. Dec. 26, 1S47. 

Cyrus, s. '• b. June 30, 1S49. 

Fit/j^erald, R.ichel. d. lulward and Mehetabel. b. Jidv 9, 1758. 

John, s. •• b. Jinie 10, 1 761. 

Flanders, Moses, s. Jesse and Ruth, b. Jan. 20, 1749. 

Hannah, d. '• b. May 17, 17^2. 

Jesse, s. ♦' b. Aug. 13, 1755.. 

David, s. " b. Jan. 19. 175S, d. 1843. 

Sarah, d. *• b. Feb. 21. lytx). 

Moses, s. ♦' b. June 2, 1767. 

Sarah, d. '• b. Oct. 12. 1769. 

Mary, d. Jac(»b and Naomi, b. May 13, 1755. 

Onesyphorus, 8. ** b. Dec. 30, 1761. 

Daniel, s. John and Eunice, b. Jan. 18. 175S. 

Lnis. d. •* b. Feb. 16, 1760, d. Oct., 

1S49. 

Euincc. d. '• b. Julv 9, 1765. 

Jacob, s. '* b. April 11, 1768. 

Jacknian, s. '* b. Aug. 9, 1773. d. Aul,'. i^, 

1854. 

Apphia, (1. E/ckicl and Sarali. b. March ^ 17^2. 

Geminui. tl. " b. April 9, 1754. <I. May 

15, 1S12. 

Benjamin, s. " b. Aug. 8. 1756. 

Patience, d. *' b. Oct. 9, 175S. 

Mary. d. Ezckicl and Jerusha, b. Nov. 20, 1766. 

Sarah, d. " b. Feb. 15. 1768. 

Martha, d. '' b. .'-^ept. 23. 1769. 



I30 

Flanders, Susannah, d, Ezekiel and Jerusha, b. Aug. i6, 1771. 
Anna, d. " b. Jan. 3, 1774. 

Ezekiel, s. " b. Aug. 16, 1775, 

d. Aug. 1, 1845, 
4. at Dorchester. 

Lydia, d. " b. Jan. 20, 1777. 

Betty, d. " b. Dec. 20, 1778. 

Israel, s. " b. Nov. 13, 1780. 

Benjamin, s. " b. April 11, 1782, 

d. Aug. 6, 1825. 
Enos, s. Enos and Sarah, b. July 17, 1770. 
Samuel, s. " b. Feb. 7, 1773. 

Benjamin, s. " b. Dec. 21, 1775, d. Feb. 14, 

1853- 
John, s. " b. Aug. 21, 1777, d. Oct. 6, 

1819. 
Anne, d. Jesse and Elisabeth, b. March 10, 1774. 
Ruth, d. Jesse and Eleanor, b. Oct., 1773. 
Betty, d. " b. Nov. 16, 1775. 

Elisabeth, d. " b. Dec. 18, 1777. 

Eunice, d. Daniel and Sally, b. Dec. 23, 1786. 
Betty, d. John and Betty, b. June 17, 17S0. 
John Stevens, s. John and Elisabeth, b. Nov. 15, 17S1. 
Phinehas, s. " b. June 5, 1789, d. 

Feb. 10, 1853. 
Elisabeth, d. " b. May 18, 1791. 

Samuel C, s. " b. Feb. 28, 1793. 

Philip, s. " b. Feb. 29, 1797. 

Guy C, s. " b. March 18, 1798. 

Joseph, s. " b. July 27, 1800, d. 

Sept. 26, 1 841. 
Eunice, d. " b. Sept. 26, 1802. 

Aaron, s. Aaron and Hannah, b. July 15, 1773. 
Hannah, d. " b. Jan. 3, 1775. 

Mehetabel, d. " b. Jan. 11, 1776. 

Sophia, d. " b. June 25, 1778, d. Oct. 

5' 1799- 
Jesse, s. " b. July 18, 1779. 

John, s. " b. Jan. 13, 17S1. 



131 

Flanders, Driisilla, tl. Aaron and Hannah, b. Feb. iS. 1782, 
Moses, s. •' b. Sept. 24, i783» 

Jacob, s. " b. Jan. 18, 1785. 

Ruth, d. " b. July 19, 1786, d, 

Oct. 5, 1799. 
Webster, s. " b. May 25, 1788. 

Rebekali. d. " b. Sept. 12. 1790. 

Charlotte, d. " b. March 31, 1792. 

Anna Coffin, d. " b. Nov. 7, 1793, d. 

July 16. 1846. 
Zelphia, d. " b. March [9, 1795^ 

Experience, s. •' b. Nov. 29, 1796. 

Anna W., d. Jacob and Margaret, b. Sept. 20. 1799. 
Samuel R., s. '' b. April 22, 1S02. 

Jacob C, s. " b. Nov. 27, iSo^ 

Freeman R., s. George J. and Polly, b. March 24, 1807. 
Jerusha, d. Ezekiel and Rachel, b. Aug. 30, 1S08. 
Susanna, d. " b. Jan. 24, 181 2. d. Jan, 

8, 1827. 
Charlotte, d. Phinehas and Charlotte, b. Jan. 17, iSi^ 
Hitty, d. " b. May 6, 1816. 

Fhinnetta, d. " b. Oct. 21, 1S17. 

Phineas, s. " b. July i. 1S20. 

David J., s. Jacob and Louise D., b. Oct. 5, 1S3S. 
Guy C, s. Samuel C. and Anna, b. June i, 18 18, d. Mar. 

12, 1837. 
Plumy A., d. " b. March 25, 1819, d. 

Nov. 2, 1841. 
Elisabeth J., " b. Dec. 11, 1820. 

Hannibal, s. " b. April 21, 1822. 

John S.. s. " b. Sept. 2, 1826. 

Loisa M. S., d. " b. Aug. 2, 1828, d, 

Aug. 13, 1841. 
Samuel S., s. " b. Feb. 25, 1830. 

Flint, Alpheus C, s. Daniel and Sally, b. May 13, 1804, i^ 

Pelham. 
Sally, d. Alpheus C. and Tamison W., b. Aug. 6, 1826. 
Daniel, s. " b. Nov. 2, 1829. 

Mary, d. " b. March 23, 1840. 



132 

Flint, Ellen, d. Alpheus C. and Tamison W., b. Aug. 25, 1842. 
Flood, Esther, d. Richard and Abigail, b. Aug. 14, 1783. 

Simon, s. " b. Nov. 26, 1785, d. 

May 6, 1S46. 

Mary, d. " b. April 16, 17S7. 

Abigail, d. * " b. May 18, 1789. 

Hannah, d. " b. June 20, 1792. 

Fowler, Elizabeth, d. Oliver and Sarah, b. May 17, 1759. 

Prudence, d. " b. Jan. i, 1761. 

Ruth, d. " b. Jan. 34, 1766. 

Oliver, s. " b. April 14, 1768. 

Sarah, d. " b. June 14, 1770. 

Humphrey, s. " b. March 25, 1772. 

Ellison, s. Capt. John and Anna, b. Dec. 2, 1772. 

Royal, s. Lemuel J. and Sarah, b. June 23, 1798. 

Samuel, s. " b. May 20, 1801. 

Benjamin S., s. " b. July 16, 1805. 

Milbury, s. " b. Oct. 15, 1S07. 

Olty, d. " b. Oct. 13, 1809. 

Lemuel s. " b. Jan. 34, 1815. 

Cephas, s. Samuel and Eunice, b. Feb. 7, 1802. 

Rufus, s. " b. Feb. 20, 1804. 

Mary, d. Samuel and Mary, b. April 26, 1S06. 

Eunice, d. " b. Aug. 27, 1808. 

Staunton P., s. " b. April 11, 181 1. 

Sarah K., d. " b. June 20, 1814. 

Harriet, d. " b. Feb. 10, 1817. 

Elisabeth C.,d. " b. Aug. 2, 1824. 

Cephas H.. s. Staunton P. and Jane A., b. Aug. 36, 1S42. 

Charles A., s. " b. Oct. 6, 1844, 

d.Apr.3, 1845. 

Staunton P.^ s. " b. Aug. 20, 1850. 

Foss, Abigail, d. Thomas and Abigail, b. Sept. 30, 1761. 

Fauna, d. '• b. March 38, 1765. 

Thomas, s. '' b. Oct. 4, 1766. 

Isaac, s. " b. April 17, 1768. 

Folsom, Charles L., s. Ira L. and Hannah M., b. Dec. 10, 1845. 

Elvirus F., s. •• b. May 3, 1S47. 

French, Mary, d. James and Martha, b. April 28, 1764. 



133 

French. Ilenrv F.. s. Reuben and Sarah, b. Dec. 26. 1799. in 

Hopkinton. 
Mary G.. d. " b. Oct. 4, 1804, in 

Salisbury. 
Francis H., s. " b. Aug. 10, 1823, d. 

Dec. 7, 1S45. 
Sarah E..d. " b. Dec. 17. 1825. in 

Hopkinton. 
Reuben E., s. "• b. Dec. 28, 1S2S. in 

Salisbury. 
Harrison, s. " b. April 7, 1831. in 

Salisbury. 
Greeley F., s. " b. Feb. 10. 1827. in 

Salisbury. 
Walter, s. " b. Sept. 27. 1S41, in 

Salisbury. 
John S. A., s. Joel and Susannah, b. Feb, 15, 1805. 
Henry S. G., s. " b. Apr. 27, 1807. 

Enoch C. G., s. " b. June 25, 1809. 

Isaac S. P., s. " b. Sept. 27, 1S12. 

Martha G., d. " b. Dec. 12, 1814. 

Samuel W. S.,s. " b. July 28, 1817. 

Stephen L. G., s. " b. Nov. 11, 182 1. 

George D., s. John and Judith, b. March 23, 1809. *^'- -^"g- 

30, 1851. 
Charles E., s. "• b. Apr. 5. 1816, d. Apr. 4, 

1847. 
Joiin O., s. " b. Nov. 10, 1819, d. Jan. 

23, 1848. 
John, s. " b. Oct. 29, 1824. 

Rachel F..d. '' b. June 14, 1827. 

Gage, Calvin, s. Richard and Susannah, b. Nov.* 17. 1811. 

Luther, s. " b. Aug. 19, 1813, d. 

Nov. 27, 1813. 
JohnCs. " " b. Apr. II, 1814. 

Hiram, s. " b. Dec. i, 1815, d. 

May 18, 1 816. 
Hiram, s. " b. July 25. 1816. 

Luther, s. " b. June 5, 1820. 



134 

■Gage, Mary M., d. Hiram and Mirriam, b. Aug. 13, 1822. 
Infant, " b. and d. July, 1824. 

Benj.F.,s. " b. Nov. 7, 1827. 

Richard B.,s. " b. Sept. 13, 1831. 

Sophronia S.,d. William H. and Polly, b. Jan. 21, 1815, 
* d. May 23,1844. 

Elcandor W.,s. " b. July 1 1, 1816, 

d. May 25, 

1819. 

Isaac Kimball, s. " b. Oct. 27, 1818. 

Asa Morrison, s. " b. Nov. 17, 1820. 

Phebe Prescott, s. " b. Sept. 23, 1822, 

d. Aug. 9, 1853. 
Rosilla Morrison, d. " b. Aug. 8, 1824, 

d. Oct. 23, 1827. 
Polly Rosilla, d. William H. and Sarah, b. Aug. i, 1838. 
Susan M.,d. Hiram and Mirriam, b. Apr. 14, 1844. 
William H. H.,s. " b. Jan. 27, 1845. 

•Charles F., s. " b. Nov. 3, 1846, d. Oct. 

20, 1848. 
Caroline A., d. " b. Sept. 9, 1848. 

Lucie E.,d. " b. Sept. 21, 1850. 

Charles F.,s. " b. March 21, 1855, d. 

Oct. 21, i860. 
Jessie B.,d. " b. Feb. 6, 1857. 

Hiram B.,s. " b. June 3, i860, d. Oct. 

19, 1865. 
Frederick J., s. Isaac K. and Susan G., b. Sept. 12, 1843. 
Georgianna J., d. " b. Jan. 16, 1848. 

Mary M., d. " b. Dec. 28, 1849. 

Charlotte H., d. " b. March 13, 1852, 

d. Jan. 26, 1866. 
Lucy K., " b. June 11, 1859. 

Isaac W., s. " b. Sept. i, i86i,d. 

Dec. 17, 1880. 
Frank H., s. Asa M. and Sophia W., b. Sept. 20, 1844. 
Helen S., d. " b. Oct. 13, 1847. 

Edwin A., s. *' b. Aug. 5, 1848, d. 

Sept. 21, 1871. 



OD 



Gage, Ida M., d. Asa M. and Sophia \V., b. Nov. 8, 1851. 
Edwin A., s. Frank H. and Lucy A., b. Feb. 8, 1872. 
Fanny A., d. " b. Feb. 27, 1874. 

Lizzie E.,d. B. Franklin and Amanda, b. July 20, 1855. 
Madella J., d. '' b. April 20. 1859. 

Edward E., s. Ricliard and Nancy, b. June 28, 1S52. 
Julia \V.,d. " b.July 16, 1S54. 

George H.,s. " b. Nov. 7, 1856. 

Thaddeus O..S. " b. Aug. i, 1858. 

Addison F.,s. " b. May, i860. 

Herbert C.,s. " b. Aug. 25, 1862. 

Hannah P.. d. Calvin and Rebecca P., b. June 13. 1836, 

d. July 5, 1852. 
Martha A., d. " b. May 10, 1840, 

d.July 19,1846. 
George W., s. " b. Jan. 30, 1S47, 

d. April 8,1854. 
Rebecca P., d. Calvin and Elizabeth R., b. May 2, 1S48. 
Annie B.,d. " b. Feb. iS, 1850. 

Harley C.,s. " b. Oct. 24, 185 1. 

Hannah P., d. " b. Sept. 5. 1853. 

Mary H., d. " b. May 8, 1856. 

Nettie A., d. " b. Apr. 21, 1858. 

John F., s. '• b. May 3. i860. 

George McC, s. " b. Dec. 23, 1863. 

Spicer R., s. " b. Oct. 21, 1866. 

Martha A., d. John C. and Elisabeth S., b. July 18, 1846. 
Dan W., s. " b. Sept. 20, 1850, 

d. May 24, 1857. 
Fred v., s. " b. Feb. 14, 1853, 

d. Oct. II. i860. 
Lizzie M., d. John C. and Hannah S., b. Nov. 29, 1855. 
Mabel C, d. " •• b.July 28. 1858. 

Aurther A., s. " b. July 27. 1862. 

Kate L., d. " b. Sept. 10, 1865, d. 

July 16. 1868. 
Edwin M.. s. Luther and Sarah J., b. Oct. 18, 1847, d. 

Nov. 12, 1848. 
Sarah P., d. " b. Oct. n, 1849. 



136 

Gage, Nathan S. M., s. Luther and Sarah J., b. Oct. 2, 1852. 

Luther C, s. " b. Aug. 4, 1856. 

Maurice P., s. Luther and Priscilla P., b. May 2, 1863, d. 

Sept. 27, 1863. 

Blanche, d. Frederick J. and Hattie A., b. Nov. 27, 1869. 

Lottie H,, d. " b. Feb. 22, 1873. 

Fred H., s. " b. Oct. 20, 1874. 

George, Phebe K., d. Austin and Elisabeth, b. Sept. 9, 1824. 

Elisabeth C, d. " b. Jan. 29, 1827. 

Mary B., d. " b. Aug. 5, 1830. 

Sarah, d. Christopher C. and Sally, b. Nov. 18, 1823. 

Charles, s. " b. May 4, 1827. 

George, s. William D. and Submit, b. Feb, 23, 1852. 
Gerald. Abinezer, d. Edv/ard and Abinezer, b. August 11, 

1777. 

Sarah, d. " b. Sept. 11, 1778, 

d. July, 1842. 

Mary, d, " b. May 14, 1779. 

Jane, d. " b. Feb. 17. 1781. 

Mehetable. d. " b. May 19, 1786. 

Ruth, d. « b. May I, 1789. 

Edward, s. " b. Nov. 4, 1789. 

Enoch, s. " b. Mar. 15, 1791. 

David, s. " b. May 19, 1794. 

John, s. " b. Mar. 4, 1796. 

Samuel, s. " b. April 12, 1798. 

Thomas, s. " b. Apr. 29, 1800, 

Polly, d. " b. Aug. 31, 1802, 

d. Aug. 3, 1841. 

Anna, d. John and Mary, b. June 5, 1787. 

Polly, d. " b. May 20, 17S9. 

James, s. " b. June 5, 1791. 

Susannah, d. " b. Sept. 5, 1793. 

Challis C, s. Samuel and Hannah, b. Jan. 2, 1820. 
Gerrish. Jeremiah, s. Henry and Martha, b. Aug. 8, 1764, d. 

April 23, 1836. 

Sarah, d. " b. April 3, 1766. 

Moses, s. " b. Feb. 17, 1768, d. 

Nov. 24, 1854. 



^37 



Gerrish, Stephen, s. Henry and Martha, b. March i6, 1770, 

d. Nov. 1 1, 1S15. 
Henry, s. 



Hannah, d. 
Martha, d. 
Jacob, s. 
Susannah, d. 
Joseph, s. 



Thomas, s. 



b. May 29, 1772. 

b. Aug. 14, 1774. 

b. May 15, 1777. 

b. Nov. 10, 1779. 

b. Feb. 28, 17S2. 

b. March 25, 17S4, 
d. May 25, 1851, 
at Northfield. 

b. Sept. 12, 1786. 



Sally, d. Moses and Sarah T., b. Oct. 26, 1790. 
Jeremiah, s. " b. Jan. i, 1794, d. Oct. 30, 

Sally, d. Stephen and Hannah, 1). July 20, 1796. 
Jane, d'. *• b. July 20, 179S. 

Patta, d. '' b. Sept. 14. iSoo. 

Sam, s. " b. Nov. 2, 1803. 

Hannah, d. " b. April 20, 1S06. 

Sewell. s. •• b. Marcli iS, 1S09. 

Judith, d. Joseph and Mary, b. July 12, 17S0. 
Mary, d. •• b. Oct. 17. 17S4. 

Sally, d. " b. Au^r. ly, 1786, d. Jan. 17, 

1 85 I . 
Betty, d. " b. Dec. 31, 17S7, d. Oct. 1 1, 

1821. 
Samuel, s. Enoch and Mary. b. July 7. 1773. 



Enoch, s. 

Stephen, s. 

Sarah, d. 

Isaac, s. " 

Anne, d. '* 
Sukey, d. Henry and Mary, b. June 15, 1797- 

Jacob, s. '' b. Dec. 29. 1801. 

Lucy, d. '• b. Sept. 30, 1S03. 

Abiel, s. " b. March 7. 1S06. 

Mary, d. '• b. Feb. S, 1S08. 



b. April 30. 1775, d. Aug. 

24, 1834. 
b. March 5, 1778. 
b. March, 1780. 
b. Nov. 27, 1782, d. Aug. 22, 

1842. 
b. Nov. 27. 1782. 



138 



Gen-ish, Elisabeth, d. Henry and Mary, b, July 24, 1813. 
Betsey, d. Moses, Jr., and Susannah, b. Nov. 18, 1796. 
Jeremiah, s. " b. May 18, 1798, d. 

April 9, 1830. 
Sally, d. Moses, Jr., and Sukey, b. May 28, 1800. 
Mary, d. " b. June 19, 1809. 

Joseph S., " b. April 19, 1817, d. Jan. 

12, 1843. 
Stephen, s. Enoch and Elisabeth, b. Jan. 4, 1801, d. Feb. 

2, 1840. 
Elisabeth, d. " ' b. Jan. 14, 1803, d. 

Aug. 24, 1824. 
Mary A., d. Enoch J. and Ruth, b. Feb. 13, 181 1, d. June 

30, 1827. 
Rebekah P., d. " b. Sept. 24, 181 2. 

Caroline, d. " b. Aug. 24, 1814. 

Aphia, d. Jacob and Sarah, b. April 27, 1804. 
Martha, d. " b. Nov. 26, 1805. 

Joseph, s. " b. June 22, 1807, d. Dec. 7, 

1850. 
Calvin, s. " b. May 31, 1809. 

Luther, s. " b.Aug. 30, 1812, d. May i, 1821. 

David A., s. " b. Feb. 6, 1815. 

Stephen, s. " b. Oct. 17, 1816, d. April 17, 

1818. 
Sarah, d. " b. Feb. i, 1S19. 

Emily, d. " b. April 6, 1821. 

Lydia, d. Isaac and Caroline? b. June 28, 1818. 
Enoch, s. " b. July 28, 1822. 

Joanna E., d. Thomas and Betsey, b. Aug. 22, 1807. 
Henry, s. " b. May 30, 1809. 

Mary B., d. " b. March 24, 1S15. 

Joseph, s. " b. June 6, 1818. 

Thomas, s. " b. Sept. 5, 1820. 

Betsey, d. " b. Sept. 5, 1S20. 

Folly L., d. Jeremiah and Jane, b. June 27, 1823, d. Dec. 

26, 1843. 
Jeremiah E., s. " b. May 19, 1826, d. Nov. 

7, 1848. 



139 

Genish, vSarah J., d. Jeremiah, Jr., and Jane, b. Jan. ii, 1830. 

Henry H.. s. '' b. Feb. 21, 1S33. 

James L.. s., b. May n. 1838. 

Frances E., d. David A. and Elisabeth M., b. Jan. 17, 

1S47. 

Adaline A., d. " b. Jan. 9, 

1S50. 

Ann E., d. Abial and Eh'za D., b. Feb. 10, 1847. 

Jesse G., s, Harlan P. and Almira, b. Sept. 10, 1S51, d. 

Dec. 28, 1852. 
Getchel, Ciiarles L., s. Ezekiel and Judith, b. Dec. 5, 1832, d. 

June 12, 1844. 

Sarah E., d. " b. Feb. 21, 1835. 

Samuel F., s. *' b. July 17, 1837. 

Judith B., d. " b. May 3, 1840. 

Mary A., d. " b. Dec. 16, 1842. 

Elvira J., d. " b. Jan. 15, 1845. 

Charles P., s. " b. May 10, 1848. 

Ezekiel F.. s. " b. Dec. 28, 1850. 

Gitchcl, Ruth A., d. Ezra B. and Hannah, b. July 9, 1825. 

John C, s. '• b. Dec. 22, 1S28. 

Ezra B., s. Ezekiel and Huldah, 1). April 9, 1797, in 

Weathersfield, Vt. 

Geo. H.. s. Ezra and Hannah, b. Feb. 26, 1822, 
Giddings, Pamela, d. James and Polly, b. Nov. 27, 1802. 

Senter M., s. " b. Sept. 12, 1804. 

James H.. s. "' b. Aug. 9, 1806. 

Hiram B., s. " b. Jan. 8. 1809. 

Mary S., d. " b. April 15, 181 1. 

Lyman G., s. " b. Aug. 22. 1815. 

Gill, Juditli, (1, John and Polly, b. April 29, 1797. 

Susannah, d. William and Ruth, b. April 20, 1792. 

Ruth, d. " b. Aug. 14, 1793. 

Mary^ d. " b. Aug. 24, 1795. 

Sally P., d. " b. Dec. 20, 1796. 

William, s. " b. Jan. 4, 1800. 

Samuel, s. " b. Aug. 10, 1S03. 

Hannah, d. " b. July 13, 1805. 

Harriet, d- " b. July 13, 1S05. 



140 



Gill, James H., s. William and Ruth, b. Oct. 12, 1807. 
John H., s. '• b. Sept, 16, 1809, 

Hamilton P., s, Moses and Harriet, b. Oct. 26. 1826. 
Rebecca S., d. " b. Dec. 27, 1831. 

Gilmore, Nathan P., s, John and Susan, b. Oct. 5, 1828. 
Mitchel, s. " b. July 9, 1S30. 

Catherine C, d. William M, and Lucinda, b. July 10, 

1837. 
Glines, Tamison W., d, Jonathan and Fanny, b. July 31, 1803, 

in Lyme. 
s. Dearborn and Elsie, b. Aug. 27, 1S51. 
Gookin, Nicholas, s. Nathaniel and Mary, b. Jan. 16, 1777, d. 

May 29, 184S, 
Clark, s. Samuel and Rachel, b. Jan. 25, 1796. 
David C, s. Pelatiah and Martha, b. Nov. 2, 1799. 
Cyrus, s. '' b. Aug. 22, 1802. 

Florence, d. " b. June 22, 181 2. 

Mary C, d. Moses and Lydia, b. Feb. 23, 1820. 
Oliver, H. P., s. " b. Sept. 10, 1821. 

Jerome, s. Nathaniel and Sophronia, b. March 17, 1839, 

d. Aug. 17, 1840. 
Livona, d. " b. July 31, 1840. 

Jerome, s. " b. May 28, 1842. 

Ruth E., d. " b. April 24, 1844. 

Octavia, d. " b. March 11, 1846. 

Julia, d. " b. Feb. 23, 1849. 

Hiram, s. " b. June 3, 185 1. 

Greenfield, Sally, d. Thomas and Elisabeth, b. March 2, 1780, 

d. July 22, 1854. 
Samuel, s. " b. Jan. 22, 1782, d. 

Feb. 6, 1817. 
Bethiah, d. " b. April 15, 1785. 

Hannah, d. " b. April 20, 1788, 

d. May i, 1863. 

Greene, Ruth, d. Nathaniel and Ruth, b. Nov. 29, 1787. 

Samuel F., s. " b. Nov. 22, 1789. 

Gardner, s. " b. Aug. 9. 1791. 

Thomas T., s. '' b. Feb. rr, 1795. 

Greenough, Miriam, d. Robert and Sally, b. May 20, 1800. 



HI 

Greenough, John B., s. John and Nancy, b. Feb. S, iSi6. 

Ellen X . d. John and Mary. b. Aug. 9. 1821, d. Apr. 2, 18^2. 

Ann F., d. '• b. July 19, 1S23. 

Lucia M.. d. " b. Oct. 11, 1S26. 

Henrv P., s. " b. Dec. 15, 1S31. d. Dec. 15. 

1852. 
Elbridge G., s. John and Ruth. b. April i, 1S23. 
Hale Joseph, b. Sept. 13, [760. 

Royal, s. Joseph and Martha, b. Aug. 24, 1788. 
Sarah, d. " b. Dec. 29, 1789. 

Samuel, s. " b. July 8, 1792, d. March 

32, 1808. 
John, s. " b. July 21, 1797, d. Oct. 

19, 1S34. 
Enoch, s. " b. March 17, i8cx3. 

Cyrus, s. " b. Sept. 8, 1805. 

Electa J., d. Ebenezer and Jane, b. April 27, 1820. 
Miriam X.. d. '* b. Marcli 20. 1S24, d. 

Aug. 13, 1827. 
Susanna T., d. " b. Oct. 6, 1828. 

Hall, Mary M., d. John B. and Sally, b. Aug. 21, 1S27. 
Samuel, s. " b. Dec. 13, 1830. 

Hanson, Stephen C, s. Dodavah and Phebe, b. Julv 18. 1S13. 
Hannaford, David, s. David and Judith, b. March 10, 181 2. 
Harriet, d. '• b. Aug. 29. 1814. 

Emela, d. " b. April 17, 1817, 

William, s. " b. March 17, 1822. 

John, s. " b. Jan. 19, 1S25. 

Hiram, s. " b. Sept. 17, 1827. 

Elisabeth, d. •• I). Xov. i^. 1S30. 

Lucy M.. d. Jabez R. and Ruth, h. Dec. 13, 1822. 
Charles E., s. Da\id and Susanna, b. Oct. 27, 1850. 
Hardy, Charles W., s. Abbot and Xancy, b. Jan. 9, 183 1. 
Harvey. Luther R., s. Horatio N. and Phebe W., b, Feb. 3, 

1840, in 

Concord. 

Henry R.. s. " b. Feb. 25. 

1842. in 
Concord. 



142 



Harvey, Cyrus A., s. Horatio N. and Phebe W . b. July 4, 1844. 
Heath, Hannah, d. vSamuel and Dorothy, b. March 4, 1787. 

Miriam, d. " b. May 29. 17S9. 

John, s. Nathaniel and Sally, b. July 20, 1815. 

Thomas P., s. " b. April 3, 1S17. 

Sarah A. H., d. " b. Dec. 21, 1818. 

ElizaJ. S.,d. " b. Oct. 17, 1S21. 

Cordelia M., d. '' ■ b. Sept. 8, 1823. 

Isaac H., s. " b. Feb. 24, 1826. 

Daniel D., s. " b. July 23, 1828. 

Mary S., d. " b. Aug. 20, 1830. 

Thorndike P., s. Nathaniel and Sally P., b. Sept. 6, 1832. 

Lucy J., d. Alfred W. and Mary G., b. Aug. 16, 1837. 

John H., s. Alfred and Mary G., b. March 10, 1839. 

Wm. H., s. '• b. Feb. 11, 1841. 

Charles H., s. William P. and Clarry, b. April 15, 1846. 

Edward L., s. t " b. Oct. 19, 1847. 

Frank E.. s. " b. April 13, 1849, 

Mellissa, d. Enoch and Hannah, b. Aug. 5, 1841, d. Dec. 

13. 1845. 

George, s. " b. Feb. 10, 1843. 

Ira, s. " b. Jan. 21, 1845. 

Melissa, d. " b. Feb. 7, 1847. 

Emily J., d. John S. and Fidelia, b. Feb. 26, 1851. 
Hemingway, Fanny, d. Joseph and Rebekah, b. Nov. to, 
Hezelton, Timothy M., s. Barnes and Hannah, b. Jan. 9, 

d. Mar., 

Rufus B., s. " b. May 7, 

Moses M., s. " b. June 2, 

Sarah H., d. " b. Oct. 25, 

Hidden, Elisabeth, d. Jeremiah and Elisabeth, b. Jan. 17, 



Hannah, d. " b. June iS, 

Jeremiah, s. " b. June 28, 

Sarah, d. " b. Oct. 19, 

Lucy, d. " b. Sept. 11, 

Hittie, d. " b. Apr. 23, 

Eben, s. " b. Aug. 25, 
Enoch, s. Jeremiah and Rebecca, b. Nov. 8, 1790. 

Polly, d. " b. Oct. 26, 1794. 



S15. 

827, 
827 
828 
832 

833 

772 

773 

775 
777 
779 
781 

785 



143 

Hidden, Samuel G., s. Jeremiah and Rebecca, b. Feb. 28, 1797. 
Hoag, D. Thomas, s. David and Almira. b. April 3, 1S39. 
Hoit, Joseph, s. Joseph and Susannah, b. July 19, 1761. 

Susannah, d. Oliver and Rebecca, b. May 26. 1766. 

Moses, s. •• b. March 11. 176S. 

Jonathan, s. Jedediah and Hannah, b. Feb. 4, 17S4. 

James, s. " b. Nov. 25, 1785. 

John, s, " b. Dec. 2. 1787. 

Naomi, d. " b. April 14, 17S9. 

Miriam, d. " b. May 19, 1791. 

Hannah, d. " b. Jan. 27, 1793. 

Betsey, d. Moses Hoit and Polly Morrell. b. February, 

1800. 
Holt, Samuel, s. Nathan K. and Roxalania, b. June 24. 1816. 

Betsey, d. " b. Sept. 12, 1818. 

LydiaM.,d. " b. Jan. 25. 1825. 

Mary C, d. " b. May 9. 1S28. 

Rebecca O., d. Nathan K. and Rebecca C. b. Aug. 12, 

1802. 

Sarah A., d. Nathan K. and Betsey, b. Sept. z^, 1S07. 

Lucy J., d. " b. Aug. 27, 1809, d. Nov. 

4^ 1S15. 

Mary, d. " b. Jan. 3, 1812. d. Au- 

gust, 1816. 

Lydia, d. " b. Oct. 11, 1813. 

Hosnier, Lucy A., d. Jacob and Catharine, b. July 16, 1809. 

Charlotte ^L, d. " b. June 25, 1812. 

William H., s. " b. June 13, 1814. 

Leonora W., d. " b. Oct. 11, 1S16. 

Jacob E., s. " " b. April 23, 1820. 

Nancy P.,d. " b. July 9, 1822. 

Mary F., d. " b. Dec. 28, 1824. 

Charles F., s. '' b. Mav 29, 1827, d. 

1S31. 

George F., s. " b. Oct. 23, 1829. 

Charles F., s. " b. Jan. i, 1832. 

Hunt, George H., s. David and Loisa. b. Oct. 26, 1827. 

Harriet, d. '' b. Dec. 16, 1829. 

Mary C d. James vS. and ^L'^ry, b. May 23, 1828. 



144 



Hunt, Judith W., d. James S. and Mary, b. May 19, 1830. 

Huntress, , s. William A. and Mary A., b. April i, 1851. 

Huntoon, John C, s. Nathaniel and Betsey, b. Aug. 19, 1817, 

at Wilmot, d. 
Oct. 27, 1867. 
" b. Jan. 23, 1819; 

at Wilmot. 
" b. Nov. 14, 1820, 

at Wilmot. 
" b. Mar. 24, 1822, 

at Wilmot. 
" b. Jan. 1 1, 1824, 

at Wilmot. 
" b. Oct. 29, 1825, 

at Wilmot. 
" b. June 17, 1827, 

at Andover. 
" b. Jan. 14, 1829, 

at Andover. 
" b. Jan. 9, 1831, 

at Andover. 
" b. Nov. 30, 1832, 

at Andover, d. 
Oct. 27, 1834. 
b. July 3, 1834, 
at Andover. 
" b. Feb. 2, 1836, 

at Andover. 
b. July 24, 1837, 
at Andover. 
" b. Aug. 8, 1839, 

at Andover. 
" b. Oct. 14, 1841, 

at Andover. 
" b. July 12, 1843, 

at Salisbuiy. 
Ilsley, Anne, d. Richard and Anne, b. Feb. 29. 1768, at New- 
bury, Vt. 
William, s. " b. Feb. 21, 1769. 



Moses C, s. 
Betsey, d. 
Daniel, s. 
Seth C, s. 
Enoch C, s. 
Woodman C, s. 
David B., s. 
John C, s. 
George N., s. 

Sarah A., d. 
George N., s. 
Harriet R., d. 
Martin V. B., s. 
Phinehas R., s. 
Charles H., s. 



145 

Ilsley, Jonathan, s. Richard and Anne. b. July 6. 1771. 
Abigail, d. " b. June 21, 1773. 

Jane, d. " b. Jan. 19. 1775. 

Nehemiah, s. John and Mary, b. Jul\- 4. 1764. 
Samuel, s. *• b. Dec. 23, 1766. 

Jackman. Marv, d. John and !Mary, b. Aug. i, 1771. 

Susannah, d. " b. May 17, 1774. d. May 

8, 1S42. 
Elisabeth, d. " b. Feb. 28. 1779. 

Olive., d. " b. Dec. 7, 17S1. 

Josiah, s. " b. April 6, 1784. 

William, s. " b. April 13. 1787. 

George, s. Benjamin and Jane, b. Oct. 13, 1772. 
Elisabeth, d. " b. March 3, 17S5. 

William, s. George and Martha, b. Nov. 16. 1749. d. Aug. 

5. 1805. 
Elisabeth, d. " b. July 4, 1758. 

Humphrey, s. " b. July 16, 1761. 

Hannah, d. " b. March 13, 1763. 

Martha, d. " b. June 10, 1765. 

George., s. " b. Apr. 14. 1767, d. Feb. 

6, 1S23. 
Rutli, d. '* b. Mar. 7, 1769. 

Nathan, " b. Feb. 21, 1771. 

Jolin, s. '' b. March 30, 1773. 

Susannah, d. •• b. March 19, 1775. 

Stephen, s. " b. April 30, 1777, d.July 

16. 1829. 
Sally, d. " b. Jan. 14, 1779. 

Mehetable, d. " b. Sept. 11, 1780, d. 

Sept. 18. 1780. 
Mehetable. d. " b. May 31, 1782. 

Richard, s. Rich'd and Ruth, b. Aug. 16, 1 764, in Canterbury. 
Henry, s. " b. Jan. 23, 1766, d. Oct. 

18, 1S45. 
-=- Abigail, d. Samuel and Anne, b. Aug. 7. 1773. 

Anna, d. '* b. Feb. 5, 1775, d. July 22, 

1809; wife of Samuel 
Choate. 
10 



146 



Jackman, Mary, d. Samuel and Anne, b. Oct. 4, 1776. 
Rhoda, d. Samuel and Submit, b. May 32, 1774. 
Samuel, s. " b. April 26, 1776. 

Martha, d. " b. Jan. 3. 177S. 

Samuel, s. " b. Feb. 15, 17S0. 

Molly, d. " b. March i, 1782. 

George, s. John F. and Elisabeth, b. Aug. 10, 17S3. 
Benjamin, s. Benjamin and Jane, b. Sept. 8, 1764, d. Dec. 

29, 1S48. 



Joshua, s. 

Jane, d. 
William, s. 

George, s. 
Anne, d. 
Hannah, d. 



Mehetable, d. 

Jonathan, s. 
Mehetable, d. 
Polly, d. 



Ruth, d. Moses and Martha, b. May 1, 1774. 



b. Jan. II, 1766, d. Oct. 
II, 1839. 

b. Dec. 20, 1767. 

b. April 6, 1770, d. Au- 
gust, 1825. 

b. Oct. 13, 1772. 

b. Oct. 23, 1774. 

b. Oct. 31 , 1776, d. Aug. 
25, 1824 ; wife of John 
Plumer. 

b. Feb. 14, 1779 
April 7, 1779. 

b. Sept. I, 1780. 
b. Oct. 16, 17S2. 
b. March 26, 1787. 



d. 



Moses, s. 
David, s. 
Sarah, d. 
Martha, d. 
Caleb, s. 
Enoch, s. 



b. Jan. 14, 1776. 
b. March 25, 1779. 
b. Nov. 6, 1781. 
b. Nov. 12, 17S6. 

b. July 5. 1794- 

b. July 1 1 , 1 797 ; d. in 1825. 



Anna, d. William and Elisabeth, b. Sept. 6, 1782. 
tVilliam, s. " b. May 19, 17S4. 

Joseph, s. " b. March 30, 1786. 

Martha, d. " b. Aug. 16, 1788. 

Stephen, s. " b. Sept. 17, 1790. 

Jane, d. " b. July 12, 1796. 

Reuben, s. " b. May 23, 1800. 

Humphrey, s. Humphrey and Eunice, b. Aug. 30, 17S2. 



147 

Jackman, Phillippi, d. Humphrey and Judith, b. Aug. 30, 1784 
Samuel, s. " b. Aug. 6, 17S6 

Bettey, d. " b. Sept. 3, 17S8 

John, s. " b. Nov. 21. 1790 

Nathan, s. " b. Oct. 15, 1792 

Hannah, d. " b. Dec. iS, 1794 

Stephen, s. " b. Sept. 13, 1799, 

at Bradford. 
Benjamin, s. Joshua and Sally, b. Aug. 14, 17S9. 
Jeremiah, s. " b. March 20, 1791. 

Judith C, d. " b. Nov. 10, 1793. 

Samuel S., s. Joshua and Dorothy, b. Sept. 28, 179S. 
Judith, d. Stephen and Sally, b. March 21, 1798. 
Ezra, s. Nehemiah and Ruth, b. June 16, 1798. 
Joanna F., d. '* b. Aug. 10, 1800. 

Mary, d. " b. Nov. 12, 1802. 

Ruth, d. " b. July 8, 1805. 

James F., s. '' b. Oct. 20, 1807. 

Benjamin F., s. Nehemiah and Sally, b. Jan, 19, 181 2. 
Susanna VV., d. '' b. Dec. 21, 1814. 

Ruth, d. John and Hannah, b. March 7, 1794. 
Matilda, d. '' b. July 30, 1798. 

Nathan, s. Thomas and Dorothy, b. Dec. 24, 1797. 
Samuel, s. '' b. Oct. 20, 1799. 

Cyrus C, s. Thomas and Mary, b Oct. 18, 1802. 
Dimmis, s. " b. Sept. 10, 1S07. 

Hannah, d. " b. Dec. 13, 1809. 

Polly, d. " b. March i, 181 2. 

Irene, d. " b. May 12, 1S14.. 

Joshua W., s. Joshua and Dorothy, b. Feb. i, iSoi. 
Hollis, s. " b. June 2, 1803. 

Sally C, d. " b. Sept. 12, 1807. 

Nancy, d. " b. June 2, 1810. 

Joseph W., s " b. Jan. 22, 1S12. 

Dorothy, d. " b. Nov. 21, 18 15. 

Adaline, d. Samuel and Hannah, b. July 4, 1804, 
Hannah K., d. " b. March 4, 1S06 ; d 

Nov. 28, 1814. 
Jeremiah C, s. Benjamin and Betsy, b. April 27, 1819. 



148 

Jackman, Jehial B., s. Benjamin and Betsy, b. July 22, 1826. 
Daniel, s. Stephen and Sally, b. July 9, 1800. 
Matilda, d. John, Jr., and Hannah, b. Aug. 26, iSoo. 
Ira, s. Moses J. and Hannah, b. Nov. i, 1802. 
Hannah, d. " b. March 17, 1805 ; d. Feb. 

21, 1845. 
Perley, s " b. Sept. i, iSoS. 

Alva True, s. " b. May 6, 1817; d. Sept. 27, 

1S43. 
Laura, d. " b. Feb. 9, 1S21. 

Jonathan, s. George and Hannah, b. June 6, 1803. 
Elizabeth, d. George. 3d. and Hannah, b. Oct. 16, 1805. 
Miriam, d. " b. Oct. 2, 1807. 

Jenny, d. " b. July 19, 1S13. 

Isaac G., s. Samuel, Jr., and Hannah, b. Jan. 3, 180S ; d. 

Nov. 29, 1814. 
Walter H., s. " b. Sept. 20, 1809. 

Nancy, d. " b. Nov. 17, iSii; 

d. Dec. 25, 1814. 
David F.,s. " b. Feb. 23, 1813 ; 

d. Dec. 24, 1814. 
Emeline, d. " b. Nov. 23, 1814. 

Caroline, d. " b. Dec. 9, 1815. 

John, s. John and Esther, b. July 21, 1823. 
Emily, d. Caleb and Martha, b. May 13, 1814. 
Enoch, s. " b. May 7, 1828. 

Mary A., d. Thomas W. and Rachel, b. Nov. 5, 1826. 
Samuel M., s " b. March 5, 1828. 

Eliza J., " b. March 18, 1832; 

d. Sept. 19, 1S36. 
Sarah J., d. " b. March 23, 1838. 

Martha T., d. " b. Feb. 20, 1842. 

George B., s. Joseph W. and Judith C, b. May 7, 1S46. 
William W., s. " b. June 25, 1851. 

William W., s. Joseph W. and Tameser, b, June 25, 1851. 
Sarah C, d. Jeremiah and Mary, b. Jan. 26, 1845. 
Jehiel T. D., s. " b. Sept. 25, 1850. 

Ellen M., d. Jeremiah C. and Mary. b. March 18, 1S53. 
Rose A., d. Hollis and Ruth, b. Aug. 8, 1832. 



149 

Jackman, Dianthia, d. Hollis and Ruth, b. Feb. I3, 1S34. d. 

March 30, 1S54. 
Hollis W., s. " b. April 2, 1835, d. 

Aug. 12. 1S49. 
Sarah J., d. " b. June 17, 1S37. 

Samuel S., s. " b. Sept. 13, 1S39, ^• 

Sept. 13. 1839. 
Phirilla, d. " b. July 2, 1S40. 

George \V., s. " b. Jan. 26, 1S44. 

Hollis W., s. " b. Feb. 15. 1S50. 

Jameson, Josiah W., b. Sept. 4, 1825. 

Nancy C, wife Josiah, b. Nov. iS, 1S23 ; d. Sept. 185 1. 
Mary H., d. Josiah and Nancy, b. Oct. 6, 1S43. 
Ella C, d. " b. Aug. 25, 1S45. 

Edward C, s. " b. Oct. 30, 1847. 

Johnson, Jonathan, s. John and Eleanor, b. Dec. 29, i753- 
Timothy, s. " b. Feb. 20, 1755. 

Catherine C. d. John and Sophie, b. Dec. 9, 1820. 
Lorenzo C. s. '* b. Nov. i6, 1822. 

Lucretia, d. " 1^. May 9, 1825. 

Francis, s. *' b. June 24. 1S27. 

Lucy J., d. Reuben and Judith, b. Aug. 31, 1S12. 
Luther G., s. " b. Nov. 13, 1S15. 

Clarissa, d. " b. Dec. 3. 1817. 

Susan G., d. " b. July 5, 1S20. 

John C, s. " b. Sept. 3, 1827. 

Charlotte, d. '• b. Nov. 2, 1S29. 

Martha F., d. Warren and Sarah A., b. Aug. 15. 1843, 
Jonathan S., s. Warren and Mercy, b. Jan. 11. 1S30. 
Jones, Jacob, s. Jonathan and Judith, b. Nov. 19, 17S1, in 

Southampton. 
David, s. " b. Aug. 20, 1784, in 

Warner ; d. Nov. 30, 
1S28. 
Dorothv, d. " b. April 23, 1787, in 

Warner. 
Daniel, s. " b. April 17, 1789, in 

Warner ; d. June 
28, 183S. 



ISO 

Jones, Jonathan, s. Jonathan and Judith, b. Oct, lo, 1791. 

Nathaniel, s. " b. Feb. 6, 1795, d. 

Aug. 22, 1837. 
Joseph, s. " b. Aug, 19, 1797. 

Folly, d. " b. Sept, 20, 1S04, d. 

July 3, 1825. 
David, s. Jacob and Mehitable, Nov, 10, 1805. 
Judith, d. " b. Oct, 29, 1810, 

Daniel, s, " b. July 19, 1813 ; d. April 

7, 1816. 
Nathaniel, s. " b. March 24, 1816 ; d. Jan. 

17, 1821. 
Charles, s, " b. July 3, 1S19. 

George, s. " b. Aug. 16, 1823. 

David K,, s, Ebenezer and Betsey, b. Jan. 26, 181 3. 
Jonathan, s. David and Rebeckah, b. Feb, 3, 18 10, 
Enoch, s, " b. April 3, 1813. 

Nancy, d. " b. June 29, 1818; d. 

Nov. 14, 1S39. 
Theodore, s. Joseph and Abigail, b. March 19, 1821 ; d. 

Sept, 8, 1822. 
Theodore W., s, " b. May 20, 1823, 

Willard W., s, " b. May 20, 1S23, 

Mary, d, Nathaniel and Rhoda, b, Dec. 13, 1824. 
Benjamin F., s, " b. Sept, 10, 1829, 

Polly, d. " b. March 8, 1827, d. Feb. 

II, 1829. 
Kelly, Phebe, d. Timothy and Jane, b. Sept, 23, 1812. 

John M., s. " b, June 4, 1819, d, Jan. i, 

Rowland B., s. " b. Dec. 8, 1823, 

Andrew J., s. " b. Jan. 22, 1S35, 

Kilburn, Eliphalet, b. Dec. 13, 1752, in Rowley, Mass., d. 

Dec. II. 1844. 
Eunice, d, Eliphalet and Mary, b. April 4, 1781. 
Geo, T,, 3, ^' b, Jan, 17, 1784. 

Enoch, s, " b. Feb. i, 1786. 

Hannah, d. " . b. Feb. i, 1786, d. Aug. 

16, 1833. 



151 



Kilburn, Mary, d. Eliphalet and Mary, b. Dec. 9, 17S7, d. Sept. 

7, 1826. 
b. Feb. 16, 1789. 



Susan, d. 
Betsey, d. 
Sally, d. 
Clarisa, d. 
Phebe, d. 
Eliphalet, s. 
Moodv A., s. 



b. Oct. 4, 1792. 
b. March iS, 1798. 
b. March 9. 1800. 
b. Sept. 26, iSoi. 
b. March 16, 1S04. 
b. April 12, 1807. 



Kilbourn, Sally, d. John P. and Hannah, b. Aug. 10, 1800. 

Mary, d. *' b. Sept. 4, 1802. 

Kilborn. Elisabeth, d. James and Elisabeth, b. Sept. 9, iSoS, d 

Oct. 20, 1839. 
Judith T., d. " b. March 14, 1810. 

d. April, 1 83 1. 
Ednah D., d. " b. Jan. 18, 181 2, d. 

Sept. I, 1838. 
Nathan, s. " b. March 2, 1814. 

Eunice, d. " b. July 13. 1816. 

Judith F., d. " b. Sept. 28, 1832. 

Albert P.. s. Daniel and Anna, b. Nov. i, 1810. 
Charles, s. *' b. Jan. 18, 1814, d. March 

12, 1S39. 
William W., s. John and Mary. b. Sept. 6. 1S20. 
Thomas, s. *■' b. Feb. 26. 1826. 

Daniel, s. " b. Dec. 11, 1830. 

John. s. " b. Sept. 2, 1837. 

Galen F., s. Eliphalet J. and Mehetable, b. May 7, 1S34. 
Sarah J., d. " b. April 5. 1S36. 

Lucian, s. " b. Jan. 20, 1842. 

Charles H., s. " b. Dec. 14, 1847. 

Albert, s. Nathan and Polly, b. Aug. 15, 1840. 
Mary B., d. William W. and Louise L., b. July 31, 1S46. 
Martha B.. d. " b. July 28, 1850. 

Samuel N., s. George T. and Abigail, b. Oct. 6, 1819. d. 

Nov. 19, 1826. 
Harriet N., d. " b. Dec. 16, 1820. 

Elliot W., s.. " b. Feb. 21, 1822. 

Enoch G., s. " b. May 18, 1823. 



152 

Kilboni, Francis W,, s. George T. and Abigail, b. Dec. 25, 1824. 
John A., s. " b. Sept. 6, 1826. 

Nancy A., d. Albert P. and Abigail B., b. March 20, 183S, 

at Danbury. 
Charles P., s. " b. Jan. 21, 1840, 

at Danbury, d. 
Aug 9, 1842. 
Daniel P., s. " b. March 15, 1845, 

at Danbury. 
Albert T., s. " b. March 3, 1849. 

Flora E., d. " b. March 10, 1851. 

Kimball, Hannah, d. Peter and Betty, b. Aug. 2, 1763. 

Molly, d. " b. Aug. 31, 1765,. d 

Feb., 1846. 
Abiah, d. " b. May 20, 1774. 

Joseph, s. " b. Nov. 24, 1767. 

Judith, d. " b. Nov. 23, 1769, d. 

Oct. 7, 1850. 
Betty, d. " b. April 24, 1772, d. 

Sept. 25, 1794, wife 
of Samuel Choate. 
Frances, d. " b. Aug. 9, 1776. 

Sally, d. " b. Dec. 31, 1778. 

Priscilla, d. " b. Aug. 7, 1781. 

Benjamin T., s. " b. May5, 1784, d. July 3, 

1852. 
Peter, s. Joseph and Eunice, b. March 5, 1793. 
Betsey, d.. " b. Sept i, 1796. 

Milton, s. " b. Feb. 20, 1799. 

Phila, d. " b. June 16, 1801. 

Jesse W,, s. Joseph and Polly, b. Jan. 16, 1805. 
Eunice, d. " b. Dec. 26, 1807. 

Solon, s. " b. Oct. 6, 1809. 

Sophronia, d. " b. Dec. 12, 1811. 

Lycurgus, s. " b. April 14, 1814. 

Abiah, d. Benj. T. and Mary, b. Oct. 6, 1806, d. Oct. 8, 

1843. 
Roxy Ann, d. " b. Dec. 22, 1809. 

David F., s. " b. Dec. 24, 1811. 



153 

Kimball, Peter, s. Benj. T. and Mary, b. March 25. 1817. 
Caroline, d. '• b. Oct. 30, 1S19. 

Austin G.. s. " b. Feb. 24, 1821. 

John, s. Benjamin and Ruth, b. April 13, 1821. 
Elisabeth J., d. •• b. April 12, 1825, d. Sept. 20, 

1840. 
Joseph A., s. '' b. Oct. 8, 1826, d. Feb. 20, 

1S27. 
Lucy Ann, d. '' b. Aug. 8, 1829. d. Aug. 25, 

1832. 
Benjamin A., s. " b. Aug. 22, 1833. 

Wm. S., s. William M. and Lucy Jane, b. March 30, 1837. 
Mary E., d. '• " ' b. Dec. 28, 183S. 

Knight, Eunice, d. Caleb and Sarah, b. Dec. 31 , 1792, d. March 

10, 1S28. 
Margaret, d. " b. Jan. 2, 1795, d. Sept. 19, 

1S45. 
Catharine, d. " b. April 21, 1797. 

Phebe, d. " b. Aug. 25, ) 799, d. June 

8, 1821. 
Betsey, d. " b. April 12, 1802. 

Knowiton, Philip, s. John and Hannah, b. April 9, 1769. 
Benjamin, s. •• b. Feb. 12, 1771. 

Joseph, s. *' b. June 4, 1773, d. 

Feb. 10. 1839. 
Mary. d. Benjamin and Molly, b. Feb. 12, 1794. 
Enoch, s. •• b. April 14, 1796. 

John, s. Joseph and Lois, b. Dec. 11, 1801, d. .Sept. i, 

1838. 
Eunice, d. *' b. March 6, 1804, d. May 29, 

1813. 
Joseph B., s. John and Eliza, b. Oct. 8, 1825. 
Henry \V., s. " b. Aug. 9, 1827. 

Emily, d. •• b. June 26, 1828. 

Charles G., s. *' b. March 9, 1831. 

Alonzo, s. " b. 

Lang, Esther J., d. Samuel W.and ^L'^ry, b. May 12. 1810. 
Jonathan E., s. " b. Aug. 27, 181 1. 

Mary, d. " b. June 26, 1S16. 



154 

Lang, Thomas M., s. Chas. E. and Rebecca H., b. Jan 13, 1835. 

Charles A., s. " b. July 6, 1838. 

Abigail B., d. " b. March 24, 

1S40. 

Huldah S., d. " b. Aug. 27, 1842. 

Lewis, Amma, d. Eben and Sally, b. Oct. 4, 1826. 
Little, Friend, s. Enoch and Sarah, b. Jan. 19, 1756. 

Mary, d. " b. Sept. 19, 1757. 

Benjamin, s. Enoch and Hannah, b. April 3, 1760, d. Aug. 

30, 1846. 

Joseph, s. " b. May 30, 1761. 

Enoch, s. " b. Jan. 17, 1763. 

Hannah, d. " b. Sept. 3, 1764, d. Oct. 

17, 1764. 
Noah, s. " b. Nov. i, 1765. 
Jesse, s. " b. July 30, 1767, d. Aug. 

18, 1840. 

Phebe, d. " b. Feb. 19, 1769, d. June 

7, 1769. 
Sarah J,, d. " b. April 20, 1770. 

John, s. " b. March 12, 1772, d. 

Aug. 24, 1773. 
Hannah, d. " b. April 10, 1775. 

Samuel, s. Friend and Mary C, b. Dec. 7, 17S1. 
Moses, s. " b. Nov. 5, 1783. 

Sally, d. " b. Sept. 12, 1785. 

Joseph, s. " b. Aug. i, 1787, d. Oct. 

28, 1847. 
Judith, d. " b. April 4, 1789. 

Mary, d. " b. Sept. 19, 1791. 

Hannah, d. " b. April 24, 1798. 

Sarah Miles, d. Eliphalet and Dorothy, b. Nov. 20, 1793. 
Eliphalet, s. " b. Aug. 10, 1798. 

Richard, s. Benjamin and Rhoda, b. Nov. 27, 1791, d. 

Oct. 29, 1849. 
John, s. " b. June 30, 1794. 

Simeon B., s. " b. Dec. 16, 1797. 

Rhoda, d. " b. April 14, 1801, d. 

Aug. 15, 1852. 



155 

Little, Charles H., s. Benjamin and Rhoda. b. Dec. 5, 1804, d. 

Jan. I, 1S36. 
Elisabeth, d. Joseph and Anna. b. April 7, 17S7, d. Feb. 

i7i 1S35. 
Phebe. d. " b. Jan. 26. 17S9. 

Jane, d. " b. Aug. 23. 1791. 

Jeremiah, s. " b. Sept. i. 1794. 

Sarah, d. " b. April iS, iSoo. 

Caroline, d. " b. Jan. S, 1S03. 

John, s. Noaii and Asenath, b. March 14, 17S8. 
Elsey, d. '• b. Oct. 9, 17S9. 

Silas, s. " b. Jan. 29, 1791. 

Enoch, s. " b. Sept 11, 1796. 

Louise, d. '' b, June 23, 1799, d. Aug. 25, 

1S3S. 
David, s. " b. Oct. 11, iSoi. 

"Luca H., d. " b. Aug. 25, 1S03. 

Harriett, d. •* b. May 25, 1S06. 

Jacob, s. Jesse and Martha, b. May i, 1795. 
John. s. " b. Nov. 25. 1796, d. Feb. 15, 

1S29. 
Sukey, d. " b. March z^. 179S. 

Henry, s. " b. March 23, iSoo. 

Thomas, s. '' b. Jan. 3, 1S02. 

Martha, d. " b. June 22, JS03. 

Leavitt C s. *' b. Feb. 24, 1S05, d. March 

23, 1S54. 
Emma. d. •'• b. May 4, iSoS, d. Aug. 30, 

1830. 
Sarah G., d. '• b. Aug. 7, 1810. 

Henry, s. Enoch and Polly, b.Jan. !, 1 792, d. Apr. 29, 1S38. 
Jane, d. " b. June i, 1796, d. Oct. 27, 

1796. 
Polly, d. " b. Nov. 11, 1797, d. Feb. 3, 

1820. 
Jane, d. " b. Feb. 2, iSoo. 

Enoch, s. " b. Nov. 8, 1802. 

James, s. " b. Aug. 3, 1804, d. Sept. 8, 

1836. 



156 

Little, Hiram, s. Samuel and Sarah, b. Feb. 19, 1813. 

Rhoda, d. ••' d. July 21, 1S22, aged 7 y'rs. 

Samuel, s. " b. Nov. 29, 181 7. 

Sarah P., d. " b. June 2, 1820. 

Joseph C, s. " b. April 21, 1822, d. Dec. 

29, 1850. 
Mary, d. " b. Aug. 8, 1S26, d. June 21, 

1853. 
Enoch C, s. " b. July 16, 1829. 

Rhoda B., d. Richard and Priscilla, b. July 9, 1816. 
Bitfield P., s. '' b. Aug. 15, 1818. 

Ephraim, s. " b. April 14, 1820. 

Susana C, d. " b. June 30, 1822, d. 

Nov. 15, 1S43. 
Charles, s. " b. Jan. 13, 1825, d. 

Oct. 9, 1835. 
Calvin, s. Richard and Mary C, b. Feb. 29, 1828. 
Levi, s. " b. July 18, 1830. 

Horace, s. " b. Sept. 17, 1832. 

Emily, d. " b. Jan. 10, 1835, d. Dec. 

3. 1847- 
Charles, s. " b. Feb. 14, 1S37. 

Priscilla, d. " b. Jan. 30, 1S39. 

Adaline T., d. Joseph and Sarah B,, b. Jan. 19, 1813. 

Mary B., d. " b. Feb. 6, 1814, d. 

Feb. 23, 1814. 
Joshua P., s. " b. May 31, 1815, d. 

April 10, 1818. 
Joshua P., s. " b. June 23, 1819, d. 

Nov. 21, 1850. 
Charles B., s. " b. June 26, 1823. 

Joshua P., s. Jeremiah and Elisabeth, b Nov. 19, 181 7, d. 

Feb. 5, 1840. 
Mary C, d. Moses and Sally, b. Dec. 9, 1S19, d. Oct. 3, 

1851. 
Moses C, s. " b. June 11, 1824. 

Albert G., s. Henry and Sukey, b. Sept. 27, 1S17. 
Polly, d. " b. May 7, 1820, d. March 

6, 1821. 



157 

Little, Alfred, s. Henry and Sukey, b. June 3, 1S23. 

Emma K., d. " b. Sept. 27, 1S30. 

Joseph A., s. Thomas and Myra A., b. May 24, 1830. 

Sarah H., d. " b. Aug. 29, 1833. 

Lucy Jane, d. " b. March 30, 1837. 

George, s. Simeon B. and Harriett, b. Aug, 23, 1825, 

Alice, d. " b. Dec. 30, 1829, d. 

Oct. 31, 1835. 

Narcessa, d. " b. Dec. 25, 1S31, d. 

Feb. S. 1832. 

Evaline, d. " b. Dec. 13, 1S32. 

Sherman, s. " b. Feb. 6, 1835. 

Arthur, s. " b. May 24, 1S37. 

Luther, s. " b. May 24, 1S27. 

Mary F., d. Enoch and Apphia, b. Jan. 28, 1831. d. June 

15, 1849. 

Ellen, d. '' b. Feb. 27, 1833. 

Henry L., s. " b. March 28, 1835, d. 

March 26, 1836. 

Louise, d. '• b. Dec. i, 1S36. 

Caleb P., s. Charles H. and Susan J., b. April 14, iS^;!. 
LittleHeld, Jacob, s. Nathaniel and Sarah, b. June 18, 1S13. 

Jeremiah, s. " b. July 21, 1S16. 

Mary C. d. " b. Sept. i, 1821, d. 

Feb. 27, 183S. 

Nathaniel C, s. " b. June 13, 1823. 

Eli/.a, d. George and Sarah, b June 26, 1801. 

Sophia C, d. " b. March 20, 1803. 

George, s. " b. June 11, 1805. 

Ozro, s. '' b. A])ril i, 1807. 

Sarah, d. "■ b. April 15. 1S09. 

Theodore, s. "■ b. April 15, iSii. 

Richard, s. " b. July 26, 1813. 

Sarah E., d. Jacob and Sarah, b. March 17, 1835, Bethel, 

Alaine. 

Hannali. d. " b. Sept. 27, 1836. 

Lomis, John. s. Ebenezer and Elisabeth, b. AL-irch 13, 17S7. 
Long, Sylvester, s. Stephen and Hannah, b. June 19, 1S27. 
Lougee, Susan, d. James and Phebe, b. Oct. 5, 1823. 



158 

Lougee, Catherine, d. James and Phebe, b. Oct. 29, 1825. 
James, s. " b. Feb. 10, 1827. 

Lunde, John Q., s. Noah and Mehetable, b. Feb. 15, 1828. 
Lunt, Mehetable, d. Joseph and Phebe, b. Dec. 15, 1783. 

Joseph, s. " b. Sept. 23, 1786. 

Samuel, s. Amos and Jane, b. Sept. 7, 1797. 

Mehitable, d. " b. Nov. 20, 1799. 

Lull, George W., s. Jesse and Mary, b. March 4, 1839. 

Squire H., s. " b. Nov. 8, 1841. 

Manuel, Amos, s. Joel and Phebe, b. Nov. 10, 1763. 

Mary, d. " b. Sept. 15, 1765. 

Dorothy, d. Samuel and Bethiah, b. June 8, 1770, at New- 
ton, N. H. 

Charles, s. " b. June 16, 1772. 

Molly, d. " b. May 7, 1774, d. Feb. 

27, 1852. 

Tabitha, d. John and Mehetable, b. July 29, 1769, d. June 

23, 1849. 

Hannah, d. " b. Feb 19, 1771. 

Jenny, d. " b. Feb. 19, 1771. 

Molly, d. " b. Dec. 22, 1774, d. Sept- 

6, 1845. 

Mehetabel, d. " b. March 30, 1777. 

Moses, s. " b. May 6, 1779. 

Sarah, d. Moses and Hannah, b. Jan. 8, 1764. 

Sarah A., d. Moses and Nancy, b. Aug. 15, 1816. 

Betsey H., d. " b. Sept. 6. 1818. 

Rufus A., s. " b. June 24, 1820. 

Asaph E., s. " b. Jan. 26, 1823. 

William J., s. " b. Feb. 2, 1825. 

March, Mary, d. Joseph and Betsy, b. Oct. 27, 1792. 

John, s. " b. Jan. 27, i795- 

Pelatiah, s. " b. Oct. 13, 1797. 

Finette, d. " b. June 2, 1801. 

Marsh, , d. James H. and Nancy B., b. Nov. 7, 1851. 

McCurdy,Danl, s. Mathew S. and Elisabeth, b. Sept. 16, 1798, in 

Dunbarton. 

Betsey C, wife Daniel, above, b. Feb. 28. 1805, in Dun- 
barton. 



159 

McCurdy, John, s. Daniel and Betsey C, b. Apr. 27, 1831, in 

Dunbarton. 
David A., s. " b. June 23, 1S32, in 

Dunbarton. 
Martha J., d. " b. Feb. 2. 1S34, in 

Dunbarton. 
David L., s. " b. Dec. 27, 1835, in 

Dunbarton. 
Elisabeth, d. " b. June 29. 1837, '" 

Dunbarton. 
Mary Ann, d. '• b. Dec. 24, 1S3S, in 

Dunbarton. 
Mathevv, s. " b. Nov. 4. 1840, in 

Dunbarton. 
Oscar D., s. " b. Dec. 21, 1842. in 

Dunbarton, d. Jan. 

31,1843. 
Lurandus, s. Robert and Mary S., b. May 4, 1841. 
Mathew, s. '' b. July 15, 1842. 

Mary E., d. " b. Sept. 26, 1S44. 

Lyra, d. " b. Sept. 15, 1846. 

Theresa, d. " b. Sept. 15, 1S49. 

McClure, Louisa L., d. John and Sally, b. March 12, 1S20. 
John A., s. " b. Oct. 22, 1822. 

Mary E., d. " b. Dec. 16, 1825. 

Edwin P., s. John A., and Phebe C, b. July 13, 1850. 
McDonald, John, s. James and Lois, b. Dec. 11, 1S08. 

Lois, s. James and Ruth, b. June 11, 1810. 
Meloon, Nathaniel, s. Nathaniel and Rachel, b. March 27, 1741. 
Mary, d. "• b. May 29, 1743. 

Rachel, d. " b. June 29, 1744. 

John, s. " b. Oct. 24, 1748. 

Sarah, d. " b. April 6. 1753. 

Joseph, s. " b. Nov. 20, 1755, 

in Canada. 
Merrill, Nathaniel, s. Rev. Nathaniel and Hannah, b. April 10, 

1769. 
Moses, s. '' b. Feb. 13, 1771. 

John, s. " b. Jan. 9, 1773. 



i6o 

Merrill, John, s. Caleb and Mary, b. July 25, 1774. 
Peter, s. '* b. Dec. 39, 1777. 

Sarah, d. " b. July 4, 17S0. 

Mills, Helen M., d. Jonathan and wife, b. Dec. 31, 1850. 
Morey, Thomas P., s. Ephraim N. and Susan, b. July 15, 1847. 
Mary S., d. " b. March 25, 

1850. 
Moody, Moses, s. Ebenezer and Molly, b. May 31, 17S6. 

Samuel, s. " b. Jan. 29, 1789, d. 

Dec. 19, 1834. 
Polly, d. " b. Nov. II, 1794. 

John, s. " b. Dec. 24, 1809. 

William, s. Ebenezer, Jr., and Lucy, b. Aug. 29, iSio. 
Ebenezer, s. " b. June 8, 1812. 

Abigail, d. " b. April 27, 1814. 

George, s. " b. July 5, 1816. 

Mary P., d. Ebenezer and Betsey, b. Sept. 30, 1830. 

Montgomery, s. Robert and Eliza, b. May 19, 1851. 

Morell, Mary, d. John and Elisabeth, b. Dec. i, 1764, at Not- 
tingham. 
Joseph, s. " b. Oct. 10, 1766, at Not- 

tingham. 
Betty, d. " b. Nov. 28, 1768, at Not- 

tingham. 
Noah, s. " b. Sept. 16, 1770, at Not- 

tingham. 
John, s. " b. Jan. 20, 1773, at Not- 

tingham. 
Benjamin, s. " b. May 10, i775,atNot- 

tingliam. 
Hannah, d. " b. May 3, 1778, at Bos- 

cavven. 
Henry D., s. " b. June 10, 1780. 

Jeremiah, s. " b. Sept. 27, 1782. 

Moses, s. " b. Oct. 9, 1784. 

Sarah, d. " b. May 26, 17SS. 

Morrill, Elisabeth, d. Sam'l and Sarah, b. Mar. S. 17S7, d. Nov. 

17, 1851. 
Eunice, d. ' b. Apr. 4, 1788, d. Feb. 

19, 1S28. 



i6i 

Morrill, Nathaniel, s. Sam'l and Sarah, b. Sept. S, 17S9, d. Feb. 

4, 1 S3 7, in Canterbury. 
Judith, d. " b. Dec. 13, 1792. 

Benjamin, s. " b. Jan. 16, 1794. 

Nancy, d. " b. Sept. 11, 1797. 

Judith, d. Joseph H. and Judith, b. Oct. 31, 1790, d. Nov. 

17, 1790. 
Joseph, s. " b. May 23, 1793, d. Jan. 

5, 1S44. 
Second son, " b. Aug. 16, 1795, d. Aug. 

iS, 1795. 
Judith, d. " b. Nov. 29, 1797, d. Nov. 

19, 1S40. 

Samuel, s. Robie and Elizabeth, b. Jan. 15, 1761, d. 1S46. 

Elizabeth, d. " b. July 31, 1762. 

Anna, d. '' b. Oct. 20, 1763, d. Nov. 

17, 1S39. 

Joseph Hobson, s. '' b. June 14, 1765. 

Jenny, d. '' b. Dec. 26, 176S. 

Jeremiah, s. " b. Jan. iS, 1775. 

Sally, d. " b. May 30, 1777. 

Hannah, d. Noah and Sally, b. Aug. 17, 1802. 

Calvin, s. Joseph and Lydia, b. Dec. 6, 1S05. 

Mary W., d. " b. May. 27, iSiS. 

Enoch L., s. " b. Oct. 9, 1S20. 

Joseph, s. '' b. June 15, 1S2S. 

Lucretia, d. Benjamin and ^Mehetable, b. Jan. 23, 1S22, d. 

Aug., 1S25. 

Franklin E., s. " b. March 6, 1824, d. 

Aug., 1825. 

Anna, d. Jeremiah and Polly, b. Oct. 9, 1800. 

Emely P., d. Jeremiah and Mary, b. Nov. 3, 1S04. 

Reuben, s. " b. April 23, iSoS. 

Harrison O., s. " b. May 20, iSio. 

Henry O., s. " b. May 20, 1810. 

Mary, d. " b. Dec. 11, 181 2. 

Sherman, s. " b. Dec. 25, 1S16. 

Charles H., s. Francis and Mary, b. June 28, 1823. 

Mary Ann, d, *' b. March 20, 1826. 

11 



l62 

Morrill, Mary F., d. Benjamin and Mary C, b. Aug. 24, 1843. 
Morrison, Mary Ann, d. Abraham L. and Hannah, b. Oct. 8, 

1811. 
Abigail P., d. " b. June 24, 

1813. 
David L., s. " b. July 8, 

1815. 
John, s. " b. Jan. 14, 

1S17. 
Charles E., s. Leonard and Sally, b. Jan. 8, 1836. 
John C, s. " b. July 18, 1837. 

Maria L., d. " b. Feb. 9, 1839. 

Benjamin C, s. " b. Jan. 2, 1841. 

Joseph L., s. " b. March 15, 1843, d. 

Oct. 18, 1843. 
Morse, Ruth, d. of Moses and Sarah, b. Oct. 2, 1766. 
Daniel, s. " b. Jan. 28, 1777. 

Molly, d. " b. Sept. 2, 1779, d. June 

28, 1844. 
Betty, d. " b. Dec. 19, 1781. 

Emma, d. " b. Nov. 19, 1783, d. Dec. 

26, 1831. 
Ruth, d. " b. Sept. 2, 1788. 

Moses, s. " b. Oct. II, 1790, d. May 

26, 1842. 
Sarah, d. " b. Sept. 24, 1793. 

Sally, d. Samuel and Rachel, b. April 3, 1783, d. April 

4, 1852. 
Rachel, d. " b. Jan. 12, 1785. 

Jane, d. " b. June 17, 17S7. 

Polly, d. " b. May 17, 1790. 

Samuel, s. " b. Oct. 10, 1797. 

Joseph C, s. Ezekiel and Mary, b. Aug. 16, 1796. 
Mary, d. " b. Aug. 20, 1799. 

Judith, d. " b. Aug. 20, 1799. 

Caleb K., s. " b. Feb. 18, 1S02, d. June 

22, 1821. 
Joshua, s. Joshua and Phebe, b. July 5, 1804. 
Aaron, s. " b. Jan. i, 1806, d. Aug. 4, 

1849. 



1 63 

Morse, Judith, d. Joshua and Phebe, b. May 28, 1810. 

Robert C, s. Moses and Phebe, b. Jan. 6, 18 17. 

Phebe Ann, d. " b. March 9, 1820. 

Harriet N., d. Moses and Ruth, b. July 4, 1S15. 

Lucy J., d. " b. March 20, 181 7. 

Maria, d. " b. Feb. 4, 1S19, d. Sept. 

28, 1843. 

Harrison, s. " b. July 26. 1824. 

Moses S., s. Samuel, 3d, and Sall\-, b. Nov. 17, 1821. 

Betsey O., d. " b. June, 1S29, d. May 

26, 1852. 

Lydia M., d. •• b. Jan. 15, 1831. 

Samuel, s. Samuel, 3d, and Betsev, b. July 15, 1S41. 

Charlotte E., d. " b. March 20, 1846. 

Lucretia E., d. Joseph C. and Nancy, b. Nov. 19, 1822. 

Phebe A., d. " b. Nov. 2, 1825. 

Caleb A., s. '' b. Aug. 4, 1828. 

Sarah H.. d. " b. Dec. 2. 1830, d. 

March i, 1833. 

Sarah H.. d. " b. Dec. 19, 1833. 

Eilith, d. Eastman C. and Mary P., b. May 16, 185 1. 
Muzzy, Joseph, s. John anil Hannah, b. Sept. 20, i77i,d. 

Jan., 1839. 

Hannah, d. " b. Sept. 13, 1773. 

John, s. " b. Oct. 5. 1775. 

Moses, s. " b. Oct. 10, 1777. 

Lydia, d. John and Betty, b. Feb. 18, 17S5. 

Mary, d. " b. June 12, 17S6. 

Benjamin, s. " b. Aug. 30, 1787. 

Samuel, s. John and Elisabeth, b. April 21, 17S9. 

Elisabeth, d. " b. Dec. 28, 1791. 

Mehetable, d. " b. Oct. i, 1792. 

Daniel, s. " b. Nov. 22, 1795. 

Hannah, d. Joseph and Jane, b. Feb. 9. 1805. 

Susannah B., d. " b. Sept. 27, 1807. 

Samuel, s. " b. Jan. 29, 1810. 

Jane, d. " b. Sept. 4, 181 1. 

Ann A., d. Samuel J. and Caroline, b. Aug. 13, 1851. 
Newcomb, Samuel C, s. Calvin and Polly, b. March 19, 1818. 



164 

Noyes, Betty, d. Benjamin and Tameson, b. Feb. 7, 1781, d. 

Dec. 15, 1851. 

James, s. Isaac J. and Phebe, b. July 11, 1785. 

Tristram, s. Tristram and Sarah, b. Oct. 17, 1785. 

Polly, d. Tristram and Mirriam, b. Aug. 20, 1786. 

Jeremiah, s. " b. March 38, 1788. 

Jane, d. " b. Jan. 26, 1790. 

Chase, s. " b. Feb. 8, 1792. 

Anna, d. " b. March 14, 1794. 

Ruth, d. " b. Aug. 25, 1796. 

Isaac, s. Cutting and Molly, b. Aug. 15, 1772. 

Moses, s. " b. Dec. 21, 1774. 

Sarah, d. " b. Oct. 8, 1776. 

Samuel Muzzy, s. " b. Aug. 21, 1778. 

Judith, d. " b. May 16, 1780. 

Dorcas, d. " b. Feb. 17, 1782. 

Amos, d. " b. Dec. 19, 17S3. 

Enoch, s. " b. Nov. 16, 1785. 

Benjamin, s. " b. June 9, 1787. 

Abigail, d. " b. Jan. 20, 1793. 

James, s. Ephraim and Molly, b. Aug. 28, 1794. 

Jane P., d. " b. Oct. 5, 1796, d. Sept. 

20, 1819. 

Elisabeth W., d. " b. Aug. 9, 1798. 

Edna A., d. '• b. May 13, 1801. 

Judith S., d. " b. Aug. 20, 1803. 

Nicholas M., s. " b. Oct. 24, 1806. 

Salome, d. Timothy and Dolly, b. May 31, 1809. 

Timothy, Jr., s. " b. Nov. 22, '181 1. 

Benjamin A., s. " b. Feb. 15, 1814. 

Martha L., d. Jeremiah and Martha, b. June 6, 1812, d. 

Sept. 15, 1836. 

Sarah J., d. " b. Sept. i, 1S15. 

Mary R., d. " b. Sept. 22, 1817. 

Enoch R., s. " b. April 27. 1820. 

Esther J., d. " b. Jan. 6, 1S23. 

Samuel G., s. " b. Oct. 13, 1827. 

Norris, Polly C, d. Ruth Norris, b. March 9. 1798. 

Melindia, d. James and Sally, b. Jan. 23. 1800. 



1 65 

Norris, James W., s. James and Sally, b. Sept, 30, 1S04. 
Nourse, Lucian H., s. William and Mary. b. Jnly iS, 1S30. 

Osborn, Abigail S., d. John and Mary, b. June 19, 1S19. 

Parker, Charles O., s. John J. and Mary, b. Aug. 25, 1823. 

Samuel T., s. " b. Sept. 14, 1825. 

John M., s. " b. July 21. 1829. 

Peach, Henry G., s. Thomas and Sukey, b. Dec. 5, 1816. 

Susan, d. " b. March 2, 1S26. 

Elisabeth, d. " b. June 3, 1S2S. 

George 11., s. Henry G. and Esther E., b. June 10, 1841. 

Mary E., d. Henry G. and Betsey C, b. Oct. 22, 1845. 

Ann E., d. '• b. March 18, 1S50. 

Emma S., d. "• b. Jan. 12. 1S53. 

Pearson, Isaac, s. Joseph and Hannah, b. March 19. 1779. 

Hannah, d. " b. Jan. i. 17S7. in 

Haverhill. 

John. S.James and Hannah, b. Dec. 7. 1797. 

Anna, d. Samuel and Mary, b. Sept. 6, 1797, d. Jan. 27, 

1800. 

Lydia, d. '• h. July 24, 1799, d. Dec. 11, 

iSoo. 

Ann4i d. •' b. March 14, 1802, d. April 

9, 1804. 

Mary, d. " b. Nov. 23, 1S05. 

Nancy, d. •' b. Jan. 2^, 1808. 

Isaac, s. Somersby and Judith, b. Mav 14, 1792. d. March 

I, 1824. 

Mary, d. " b. April 7, 1794. 

Rebecca, d. " b. Feb. 11, 1799, d. May 

4. 1812. 

John C, s. Nathan, Jr., and Eliza, b. May 25, 1S35. 

William, s. Paul and Sarah, b. March 5, 1827. 

Charles, s. •• b. Aug. 17, 1S29. 

Sarah J., d. " b. Dec. 22, 1835. 

Henry F., s. " b. July 23, 1839. 

David F., s. Elisabeth Flanders, b. May 17, 1818. 
Perkins, George W., s. George and Polly, b. Aug. 28, 1802. 

Thomas J., s. " b. Nov. 25, 1805. 



i66 

Pettengill, Mary, d. Benjamin C. and Rachel, b. May 8, 1782. 
Peterson, Daniel, s. Daniel and Sarah, b. Jan. i, 1776, d. Jan. 

25, 1S13. 
John, s. " b. June 11, 1778. 

Samuel, s. " b. May 10, 17S2. 

Ezra C, s. " b. Sept. 10, 1785. 

Billy, s. " b. Jan. 9, 1788. 

Judith G , d. " b. May 16, 1790. 

Pillsbury, Daniel, s. Daniel and Eunice, b. March 20, 1789. 
Enoch, s. " b. Aug. 14, 1790. 

George T., s. " b. Feb. 7, 1792, d. 

May 16, 1836. 
Moody A., s. " b. May 4, 1794. 

Rebekah, d. " b. April 29, 1796. 

Paul P., s. " b. Nov. 8, 1797. 

Joseph, s. " b. Aug. 7, 1799, d. 

May 14, 1861. 
Eunice, d. " b. Aug. 22, 1S03, d. 

Nov. 2, 1843. 
Mary, d. " b. Feb. 6, 1S05, ^' 

April 7, 1843. 
Sarah, d. " b. Nov. 4, 1S06. 

William, s. " b. Aug. 2^^ 1809, d. 

Aug. 27, 1845. 
Moody A., s. Moody A. and Abigail, b. Sept. 20, 1820. 
George, s. " b. Oct. 17, 1823. 

Charles W., s. " b. June 7, 1826, d. 

May 17, 1828. 
Charles S., s. " b. April 14, 1S28. 

Jonathan K., s. Enoch, Jr., and Margaret, b. Feb. 22, 

1817. 
Sarah E., d. " b. Mar. 21, 

1819. 
Mary A., d. Daniel and Betsey, b. Sept. 10, 1821. 
Benjamin, s. " b. Oct. 26, 1824. 

Enoch H., s. Enoch and Martha, b. May 5, 1824. 
Martha A., d. " b. Jan. 26, 1836. 

Elvira, d. Daniel, Jr., and Dorothy, b. June 25, 1815, d. 

Aug. 3, 1824. 



167 

Pillsbury, Melvin, s. Daniel, Jr., and Dorothy, b. July 1 1, iSiS. 
Joseph B., s. Daniel, Jr., and Betsey, b. June 19, 1S23. 
Henry W., s. Joseph and ^Martha L., b. June 27, 1827, d. 

Dec. 12, 1S57. 
Joseph L., s. " b. Feb. 10, 1S29, d. 

Jan. 10, 1S73. 
Martha S., d. •• b. Feb. 15. 1S36. 

George L., s. •• b. May 17, 1S39. 

Lucretia A., d. John and Sarali, b. March 31, 1S27. 
Elvira, d. William T. and Eunice, b. April 26, 1S39, in 

Salisbury. 
Elencttc. d. " b. June 4, 1842. 

Sarah A., d. Paul and Sarah G., b. Nov. 20, 1S51. 
Finkerton, John A., s. John M. and Rebekah, b. Aug. 28, 1823. 
George W., s. '• b. Aug. 10, 1825. 

Franklin, s. " b. March 5, 1S27. 

Josiah R., s. " b. Feb. 19, 1829. 

Myron W., s. Moody M. and Jane C. b. Julv 18. 1S43. 
Samuel C, s. '' wife, b. Jan. 2, 1S46. 

Charles VV., s. " SarahN.,1). Sept. 12, 1850. 

Wallace, s. " " b. June 10; d. 

yoinig. 
Plumer, Nathan, s. Nathan and Elisabeth, b. April 2, 1774, 

d. Api il 7, 184S. 
John, s. Bitfield and Priscilla, b. Aug. 10. 1774, d. Feb. 

21, 1827. 
Priscilla, d. •• b. Jan. 12, 1786, d. Feb. 

26, 1S25. 
Ephraim, s. Ephraim and Rachel, b. Aug. 29, 1793. 
Bitfield, s. John and Hannah, b. Nov. 9, 1799. 
Anna, d. '■ b. Sept. 7, 1801. 

Jeremiah, s. " b. Oct. 8, 1803. 

Polly, d. " b. Aug. 25, 1S05. 

Frederick P., s. " b. Sept. 15, 1809, d. Mar. 

23, 1S15. 
George W., s. " b. July 29, 1S14, d. June, 

1842. 
Frederick P., s. " b. July 26, 1817, d. Nov. 

28, 1853. 
Nathan, s. " b. July 21, 1821. 



1 68 

Plumer, Mary A., d. Nathan and Sarah, b. Jan. i6, iSio. 

Elisa J., d. " b. Oct. 31, 1814. 

Polly L., d. Ephraim and Lucy, b. Nov. 23, 1S21. 

Abial G., s. " b. May 24, 1824. 

Priscilla P., d. " b. May 28, 1826. 

Helen E., d. " b. March 26, 1834. 

Frances A., d. " b. Nov. 18, 1838. 

Frank J., s. Bitfield and Susan, b. Feb. 16, 1847. 
Price, Mary F., d. Ebenezer and Lucy, b. Dec. 26, 1804. 

Lucy E., d. " b. Jan. 17, 1808. 

Emily P., d. " b. Oct. 25, 1809. 

Ebenezer S., s. " b. Feb. i, 1812. 

Frederick, s. " b. Aug. 6, 1815. 

Pritchard, Benj., s. Dexter and Cintha, b. Nov. 12, 1830. 
Putney, Alexander H., s. Caleb and Naomi, b. Feb. 26, 1804. 

Sarah, d. Stephen and Susanna, b. Feb. 9, 1S07. 

Clarissa, d. " b. Aug. 22, 1810, d. 

April 16, 1S21. 

David E., s. " b. Aug. 5, 1812. 

Lucy E., d. " b. July 2, 1S14. 

Chas. E., s. Stephen and Sally, b. June 10, 1827. 

Samantha S., d. " b. Aug. 3, 1829. 

Francis, s. Enoch and Sally, b. Oct. 20, 1818. 

Moses, s. " b. Nov. 14, 1820, d. Nov. 

18, 1841. 

Clarissa, d. " b. Sept. 21, 1824, d. June 3, 

1846. 

Richards, Sarah, d. Daniel and Eunice, b. Feb. 9, 1776. 

Joseph, s. " b. June 21, 1784. 

John M., s. " b. Sept. 10, 1788. 

Daniel, s. " b. Jan. 20, 1793. 

Nabby, d. " b. Aug. 28, 1795. 

Polly, d. " b. March 5, 17S0, d. 

March 16, 17S0. 

Betty, d. " b. July 23, 17S2, d. 

Aug. 31, 1782. 
Rolfe, Benja., s. Benja. and Lydia, b. Jan. 29, 1773. 

John, s. John and Anna, b. May 9, 1785. 



169 

Rolfe, Amos, s.Johii and Anna,b. Apr. 12, 1787, d. Jan. 27, 1S41. 
Lvdia, d. •• b. Sept. 25, 1791. 

Michael, s. " b. Feb. 10, 1793, d. Jan. 82, iSio. 

Elisabeth, d. " b. July 29, 1797. 

Judith, d. " b. Feb. 13, 1799. 

Paul, s. " b. Oct. 27, 1802, d. Sept., 1824. 

Nancy, d. John and Nancy, b. Sept. 25, 1806, d. March 

27, 1S30. 
Jeremiah, s. '' b. Jan. 8, 181 2. 

Sally, d. Silas and Nancy, b. April 5, 1794. 
Amos, s. '• b. July 7, 1795. 

Pearson, s. " b. Sept. 20, 1798. 

Benja., s. '' b. March 15, iSoo. 

David, s. Amos and Fanny, b. Feb. 17, 181 5. 
Eliza, d. ^ b. Sept. 5, 1816, d. Nov. 11, 

1848. 
William, s. '• b. Aug. 8, 1819, d. Feb. 13, 

1843. 
Rosannah. s. "• b. Nov. 7, 1821. 

Albert, s. '' b. Jan. 3, 1824. 

Hiram, s. •• b. Mav 10, 1827, d. Aug. 24, 

1854. 
Harriet, d. ** b. Feb. i. 1S29. d. Jul\- 11, 

1849. 
John S., s. Jeremiah and Lucy A., b. Feb. 11, 1850. 
Roberts, Daniel VV., s. Asa and Hannah, b. June 22, 1828, in 

Salisbury. 
Robey, Mary A., d. Stephen M. and Sarah K., b. Aug. 10, 

1849. 
Frank A., s. James W. and Eliza, b. Dec. 10. 1850. 
Robinson, James, s. James and Elisabeth, b. Oct. 2, i773* 

James, s. " b. April 20, i775' 

in Allenstown. 
Horatio Gates, s. "■ b. Oct. 4, 1778, in 

Pembroke. 
Betsa, d. " b. Oct. 4, 1778, in 

Pembroke. 
Olive, d. James and Elisabeth B., b. June 13, 1783. 
Polly, d. James and Judith, b. Jan. 19, 1786. 



Robinson, Judith, d. James and Judith, b. Oct. 7, 1788. 

John, s. " b. May 29, 1792. 

Royce, George H., s. George S. and Eunice W., b. April 11, 

1848. 
Daniel D., s. " b. Sept. 28, 

1850. 
Runnels, Jeremiah F., s. Farnum and Jerusha, b. Oct. 14, 1824. 
Mary A. J., d. '' h. April 12, 

1827. 
Jerusha A., d. " b. June 19, 

1S31. 
Osyman, s. '" b. June 12, 

1S35. 
Helen C, d. " b. May 18, 1839. 

Edward G., s. " , b. Dec. 6, 1843. 

Albert, s. Samuel and Elisabeth, b. Dec. 23, 1810. 
Mary C, d. Albert and Ann M., b. June 10, 1836. 
Marshal, d. " b. July 14, 1838. 

Nelson I,, s. Jeremiah and Harriet M., b. July 28, 1850. 

Sargent, Isaac, b. April 21, 1786, d. Dec. 3, 1825. 

Rebeckah, wife of Isaac, b. Dec. 10, 1796. 

Sarah, d. Isaac and Rebeckah, b. Dec. 14, 1816. 

Ezekiel C, s. '^ b. Nov. 21, 1818. 

George J., s. " b. Oct. 20, 1820. 

Mary Ann, d. " . b. Sept. 2, 1S22. 

Walter H., s. " b. March 6, 1825. 

Louis, s. Michael and Lydia, b. June 19, 1772. 

Molly, d. " b. Aug. 26, 1773. 

Edward, s. " b. Dec. 27, 1774. 

Sarah, d. " b. May 9, 1777. 

Joseph, s. " b. Jan. 20, 1779. 

William, s. " b. Aug. 28, 1781. 

John, s. " b. May 14, 1783. 

Dorothy, d. " b. Feb. 28, 1785. 

Michael, s. " b. Oct. 16, 1786. 

Sanborn, Jesse, s. Tristram and Abigail, b. Nov. 12, 1797, d. 

May 12, 179S. 

Abidan, s. " b. July 26, 1799. 



171 

Sanborn, Jos. K., s. Tristram and Abigail, b. Nov. 4, iSoo. 
Henian, s. " b. Dec. 13, 1803. 

Sarah, d. " b. March 10, 1S06. 

Nancy E., d. " b. March i, 180S. 

Joshua, s. " b. March 25, iSio, d. 

July 26, 1815. 
Daniel, s. " b. Oct. 22, 1S12. 

Jesse D., s. " b. Nov. 2, 1S14. 

Hannah, d. " b. June 29, 1S17, d. 

Sept. 25, 1822. 
Lois. d. " b. Aug. 22, 1820, d. 

Sept. 8, 1822. 
Tappan, b. Jan. 24, 1800. 

Mary, b. Aug. 23, 1801, wife of Tappan. d. Dec. 14, 1827. 
Hannah K., d. Tappan and Mary, b. May S. 1825. 
Walter, s. '• b. April 4, 1827. 

James F., s. James and Lydia, b. July 21, 1810, at San- 

bornton. 
Abigail C, d. Abidan and Rcheckah,b. Oct. 22, 1826. 
Moses C, s. •• b. May 19, 1S29. 

Susanna C. d. " b. Oct. 20. 1S30. 

Emily, d. John aiul Rehcckah, b. Dec. 30, 1S32. 
John, s. '• b. March 15, 1834. 

Ellen, d. " b. July 12, 1835. 

Charles, s. " b. Nov. 22, 1839. 

Sarah, d. " b. May 4, 1842. 

Hannah, d. " b. Feb. 3, 1844. 

Harvey P., s. •' b. Jan. 15, 1846. 

Hannah vS., wife Joseph K., b. July 30, 1798. 
George T., s. Joseph K. and Ilannali, b. jMay 24, 182S. 
Heman B., s. •• b. Feb. 26, 1830. 

Adelia A., d. " b. Sept. 4, 1834. 

Hannah L., d. " b. Jan. 16, 1839. 

Joseph H. K., s. Jesse D. and Arvilla, b. June 7, 1842. 
Mary J., d. " b. June 10, 1844. 

Tristram, s. " b. June 7, 1846. 

Martha A., d. " b. May 16, 1848. 

Clara F., d. '' b. June 5, 1850. 

Georgianna E . d. Geo. T. and Hannah E., b. March 2, 1850. 



172 

Sanborn, Flora A., d. Geo. T. and Hannah E., b.Mar. 5, 1852, 

d. Feb. 26, 

1853- 
Betsey A., d. James F. and Betsey, b. Feb. 11, 1S41, d. 

Sept. 16, 1848. 

James O., s. " b. Nov. 4, 1S43. 

Sarah E., d. " b. Nov. 7, 1845. 

Lydia D., d. " b. Nov. 7, 1845. 

EHsabeth A., d. " b. Aug. 24, 1847. 

John E., s. " b. March i, 1849. 

Jeremoh F., s. " b. Feb. 30, 1851. 

.MyraJ.,d. " b. April 3, 1853. 

Savory, Caroline P., d. Thomas W. and Martha, b. Dec. 24, 

1847. 

Sawyer, Elenor N., d. John and Phebe, b. June 8, 1827. 

Senter, Ebenezer P., s. Ebenezer and Polly, b. June 26, 1804. 

Severance, Jemima, d. Nicholas Severance and Molly Danforth, 

b. Dec. 12, 1790, d. in 1S33. 

Polly, d. Benjamin and Rebekah, b. April 5, 1790. 

Sally, d. " b. April 5, 1791. 

Benjamin, s. " b. April 2, 1794. 

Rodney, s. " b. Dec, 1795. 

Silas, s. " b. July 29, 1797. 

Shackford, Charles F., s. George W. and Mary A., b. Jan. 24, 

1844. 

George W., s. " b. May 11, 

1846, d. 

Jan. 4, 

1S49. 

Shattuck, Richard, b. in New Ipswich, Feb. 15, 1791. 

Abigail, d. Timothy Farnsworth, b. March 29, 1793, in 

Peterborough, wife of Richard above. 

Jane W., d. Richard and Abigail, b. Sept. 5, 1812. 

Sally, d. Richard P. and Abigail, b. July 11, 1817. 

Mary, d. " b. June 25, 1820. 

Timothy F., s. " b. Nov. 23, 1822. 

William E., s. " b. Sept. 3, 1824. 

Ricliard P., s. William E. and Nancy A., b. May 2, 1846. 

Franklin P., s. Timothy F. and Parmelia, b. Apr. 17, 1848. 



/J 



Shattuck, David H.. s. Farnsworth and Permelia, b. Jan. 30, 

I S50. ^ 
Shepard, Peter R.. s. John and Frances, b. Sept. 19, 1838. 

Ann F., d. •' b. Nov. i, 1S42. 

Shepherd, Mary, d. Israel and Sally, b. March 13, 1S16. 

Jona. C, s. " b. March 22. 1818. 

Sally, d. " b. Aug. 15, 1S20. 

Chestina, d. " b. Dec. 6. 1S24. 

Nancy, d. " b. Aug. 23. 1S26. 

Jedidiah S., s. " b. May i, 1S29. 

Charles P., s. " b. 

Elisabeth, d. Daniel and Elisabeth, b. Jan. S, 1776. 

Sarah, d. '' b. Aug. S, 1777. 

Elisha, s. Daniel and Mary, b. Dec. 4, 1759. 

Phillip, s. " b. April i, 1761. 

Charles, s. " b. May 31, 1768, at Canter- 

bury. 

!Mirriain, d. " b. Feb. iS, 1773. 

Clarissa, d. Sarah Danforth, b. Nov. 20, 1S02. 

Franklin A., s. Luke and Mary, b. Nov. 4, 1827. 

James C, s. " b. Oct. 29, 1S29. 

Mary, d. " b. 

Jane, d. John and Catherine, b. Sept. 8. 1S51. 
Simpson, John G., s. Benjamin and Ruth, b. April 9, iSoS. 

Mary J., d. John G. and Jane, b. Aug. 19, 1S39. 

Charles P., s. '' b. March 28, 1841. 

Walter J., s. Horace and Jane W., b. Aug. 9, 1849. 

Susan M., d. '• b. May 16, 1S52. 

George L., s. Amos J. and Elisabeth, b. March 19. iS^i. 
Smith, Benjamin, b. July 20, 1787, in Salisbury. 

Abigail Call, wife Benjamin, b. Jan. 29, 1796, in Salis- 

burv. 

Jeremiah, s. Moses and Sally, b. Feb. 14, 1802. 

Silas, s. " b. Dec. 15, 1S04. 

Mary L., d. " b. Sept. 5, 1S07. 

Caleb P.. s. '^ b Oct. 5, iSio. 

Samuel, s. '• b. Aug. 25, 1813. 

Mary G., d. Joseph B. and Anna. b. Feb. 8, 1S13. 

Martha A., d. " b. July 12, 181S. 



174 

Smith, Emeline, d. Benj. and Abigail, b. Oct. 28, 1818. 

John F., s. " b. Feb. 15, 1821, d. 

July 9, 1843. 
Leonard N., s. " • b. Jan. 22, 1823, d. 

April 23, 1842. 
Emeline, d. " b. April 2, 1827, Salis- 

bury. 
Mary J. P., d. " b. Feb. 16, 1841. 

Julian, d. Joseph and Julian, b. June 25, 1850. 

s. James V. and Mary A., b. March 9, 1851. 

Stackpole, Charles H., s. John D. and Mary J.,b. Sept. 9, 1835. 
John P., s. " b. July 8, 1840. 

George D., s. " b. June 17,1842. 

Ellen M., d. " b. April 30, 

1845. 
Emily I., d. " b. July 19, 1847. 

Stanley, David S., s. Sumner and Ruth, b. Maixh 15, 1829, in 

Hopkinton. 
Stanwood, Jane, d. Cornelius D. and Mary, b. June 12, 1817. 
Eliza A., d. " b. Sept. 20, 1820, 

d. March 24, 
1851. 
Catharine, d. " b. Oct. 8, 1822. 

Charles H., s. " b. July 7, 1827. 

Daniel C, s. " b. May 3, 1829. 

Stevens, Phinehas, s. John and Elisabeth, b. Dec, 9, 1774, d. 

April II, 1788. 
Jane, d. " b. Dec. 16, 1776. 

David, s. John and Submit, b. Jan. 19, 181 1. 
Bradford N., s. " b. Jan. 3, 1813. 

Adeline, d " b. Feb. 17, 1815. 

Calvin, s. " b. March 15, 1817. 

Cate, s. George W. and Martha C, b. May 5, 1851, d. 

March 31, 1852. 
Stone, Sarah, d. George and Hannah, b. Dec. 28, 1789. 
John, s. " b. Feb. 28, 1791. 

Amos, s. " b. June 20, 1794. 

Polly, d. " b. May 27, 1797. 

Peter, s. " b. Dec. 11, 1799. 



175 

Stone, Geo. W., s. George and Hannah, b. Sept. 5, 1S02. 

Hannah, d. " b. Feb. 14, 1S04. 

Royal, s. " b. July 27, 1S07. 

Liberty, s. Charles and Nancy, b. Feb. 13, 1S05. 

Benjamin S., s. Jolin and Submit, b. June 16, 1815. 

Hiram G., s. " b. May 24. 1S22. 

Mary, d. Amos and Nancy A., b. Aug. i, 1S19. 

Eliza, d. " b. Oct. 14, 1S20. 

Oilman C, s. " b. March 11, 1S23. 

Ira A., s. " b. June 13, 1S25. d. Oct. 

15, 1S46. 

Joseph W., s. " b. Oct. 10, 1827. 

Hannah A., d. " b. April, 1830. 

Henry F., s. " b. Aug, 20, 1S33. 

Royal H., s. " b. June 15, 1S37. d- March 

9, 1S42. 

Nancy J., d. " b. Oct. 13, 1839, d. March 

13, 1S42. 

Myron, s. " b. March iS, 1843. 

Phebe C, d. Peter and Ruth, b. Sept. 24, 1S25. 

Charles J,, s. " b. April 21, 1S27. 

Hannah E., d. " b. Dec. 12, 1S2S. 

Silas C, s. " b. Nov. 14, 1830. 

Caroline, d. George W. and Julia, b. March 4, 1834, ^^' 

Sept. 17. 1842. 

Katherine, d. George W. and Julia A., b. Oct. 20, 1S38. 

Cyrus A., s. " b. Jan. 10, 1S42. 

Maria, d. " b. April 4, 1844. 

Ella F., d. " b. Nov. 26, 1846. 

George H., s. '' b. Feb. 17, iS^o. 

Story, Albert S., s. Joseph and Lucie H., b. Feb. 17, 1828. 

Julia A., d. "■ b. Dec. 22, 1830, d. 

March 31, 1846. 
Sweatt, Edward, s. John P. and Susannah, b. Dec. 15, 1774. 

Susannah, d. " b. Dec. 23, 1776. 

Rhoda, d. " b. Sept. 9, 1793. 

Samuel P., s. Abraham T. and Priscilla, b. June 11, 1783. 

Martha, d. Benjamin and Sarah, b. March 5, 1775, d. March 

6, 1819. 



176 



Sweatt, Sarah, d. Benjamin and Sarah, b. May 20, 1777, d. Aug 

II, 1S47, in Ohio. 
Benjamin, &. Benjamin, Jr., and Sarah, b. July 19, 1782. 



b. Nov. 4, 1784. 

b. Sept. 16, 17S7. 

b. March 14, 1790, d. Dec. 

1 1, 185 1, at Pittsfield. 
b. Dec. 12, 1792, d. April 

23, 1852. 
b. June 16, 1795. 



David, s. 
Stephen, s. 
Stephen, s. 

Samuel, s. 

Submit, d. 

Mary E., d. Moses and Sally, b. July 13, 1796. 

Jesse, s. Edward and Mirriam, b. Oct. 10, 1796. 

Asenath, d. " b. June 30, 1798, d. Oct. 

II, 1821. 
Pierce, s. " b. Sept. 18, 1800, d. March 

3, 1844. 
b. Nov. 4, 1802. 
b. April 6, 1805. 
b. Oct. 12, 1807, d. April 

13, 1825. 
b. April I, 1809. 
b. June 25, 1812. 
b. Jan. 17, 1816. 



David, s. " 

Silas, s. " 

Sally, d. 

Jeremiah, s. " 

Ruth, d. 

Edward, s. " 

Martha, d. David and Judith, b. Aug. 12, 1805. 

Levi, s. Benjamin, Jr., and Eunice, b. July 9, 1806. 

Lemuel, " b. April 25. 1S08, d. 

June 5, 1S16. 
Polly, d. John P., Jr., and Eunice, b. Feb. 8, 1802. 
Nicolas, s. " b. July 9, 1803. 

James, s. " b. Aug. 8, 1S05. 

Hannah, d. " b. Sept. 2, 1S08. 

Eunice, d. " b. May 16, i8ii. 

Angelina, " b. Dec. 8, 1814. 

Submit, d. Isaac and Mary, b. March 24, 1805, d. March 

23, 1803. 
Orrella, d. " b. Nov. 14, 1806. 

Betsey, d. " b. April 13, 1S08. 

William M., s. '' b. Feb. 20, 181 2. 

Mary Ann, d. " b. April 6, 1814, d. Sept. 20, 

1825. 



177 

Sweatt. Emeline, d. Isaac and Mary, b. March 6, iSi6. d. Aug. 

13, 1830. 
Atherton, s. Isaac and Polly, b. Aug. 2, 1S18. 
Charles, s. " b. June 29, 1820, d. Oct. S. 

1834. 
George, s. " b. April 2, 1S23. 

Flora A., d. Isaac T. and Polly, b. May i, 1824. 
Martha C, d. '• b. Feb. 3, 1826. 

Mirriam G., d. " b. Sept. 16, 1S29. 

Emily, d. •' b. Sept. 23. 1S31. 

Lucinda, d. Silas and Polly, b. March 12, 1806. 
Ira, s. . " b. Dec. 14, 1S07. 

Lois, d. " b. Feb. 21, 1810. 

Hiram, s. " b. May 22, 1S12. 

Savalla, d. " b. June 5, 1814. 

Cyrus G., s. '' b. July 13, 1816. 

Abraham T., s. Samuel P. and Abigail, b. Feb. 8, 1S07. 
Priscilla C, d. " b. March 2, 1809. 

Sophronia C, d. " b. April 25, 181 1. 

Simeon H., s. " b. April 27, 1S13. 

Elvira, d. " b. May 20, 1S15. 

Carter C.,s. " b. May 7, 1817, 

d. Aug. 12, 
1825. 
Moses, s. '• b. Sept. II, 1S20. 

Abigail, d. " b. Oct. 29, 1S21. 

Samuel, s, " b. May 8, 1824. 

Carter G., s. " b. Sept. 2, 1827. 

Livonie, d. " b. Sept. i, 1829. 

Sarah, d. Samuel and Susannah, b. Nov. 30, 1816. 
Sophia, d. •• b. Feb. 22, 1819. 

Phebe L., d. Stephen and Judith, b. April 15, 1S15. 
Sally L., d. '^ b. Feb. 19, 1818. 

Daniel. C, s. " b. March 19, 1820. 

Ira C, s. " b. June 19, 1822. 

Albe C, s. " b. April 24, 1824. 

Mary L., d. " b. Jan. 26, 1827. 

Taylor G., s. '- b. Oct. 26, 1829. 

Leavitt L., s. ' " b. Sept. 10, 1832. 



178 

Sweatt, Charles L., s. Stephen and Judith, b. June 4, 1836. 
Sumner J., s. Henry and Elvh-a, b. Dec. 16, 1840. 
Nancy C, d. Silas and Dolly, b. July 6, 1S18. 
Enoch, s. " b. Feb. 24, 1835. 

Maria G., d. Jesse and Sally, b. Nov. 22, 1S22. 
Mary Ann, d. " b. Dec. 5, 1824. 

Harriet G., d. David and Judith, b. March i, 1824. 
Pamela, d. '' b. April 30, 1826. 

Silvester, s. Levi and Adeline, b. April 20, 1835. 
Washington, s. " b. July 22, 1837. 

Mary A., d. Ira and Mary, b. April 6, 1833. 
Henretta O., d. '' b. Nov. 24, 1834. 

Eliza J., d. " b. Dec. 19, 1836. 

Joseph S., s. " b. Nov. 28, 1843. 

Walter E., s. " b. Jan. 29, 1846. 

Sarah A., d. Simeon H. and Abigail A., b. March 16, 

1841. 
Joseph S. G., s. " b Oct. 23,1843. 

Warren"^ s. Henry and Elvira, b. July 29, 1845. 
Abby, d. " b. Feb. 8, 1848. . 

Anetta C, d. George and Francis C, b. April 6, 1850. 
Edwin L., s. Albe C. and Mary, b. May 12, 1850. 
Ella M., d. Atherton and Harriet, b. May 5, 1852. 

Tewksbury, Olive, d. Ezekiel F., b. July 3, 1850. 
Therlo, Ruth, d. Silas and Susannah, b. April 4, 1796. 
Thorla, John, s. Thomas and Deliverance, b. Oct. 27, 1791. 
Marv, d. Amos and Alice, b. Aug. 11, 1805, d. May 20, 

1854. 
Betsey, d. " b. Aug. 17, 1810. 

Fanny, d. " b. July 12, 1813. 

Jeremiah S., s. " b. April 13, 181 6. 

Rosamond, d. " b. Jan. 14, 1819, d. Jan. 2, 

1843. 
Alice, d. " b. June 3, 1822. 

Fidelia, d. " b. Sept. 20, 1824. 

Thurlow, Mary, wife Eliphalet Kilbourn, b. July 19, 1762, in 

Newbury, Mass., 
d. June 12, 1842. 



179 

Thurston. Polly J., d. Natli'l and Susannah, b. Nov. 20. 1792. 

Moses, s. " b. Feb. 2, 1795, 

d. Nov. 9. 179S. 

Abel, s. " b. April 5. 1797. 

Moses, s. " b. Oct. 20. 1799, 

d. Oct. 22, 1S49. 

Apphia C. d. " b. June 15. 1S02. 

Ruth, d. " b. Oct. 7. 1804. 

Enoch, s. " b. Mch. 24, 1S07. 

Molly B., d. " b. Sept. 19. 1S09. 

John J., s. '* b. April 3, 1S13. 

Susannah, J., d. " b. Oct. iS, 1S15. 

Nath'l, s. '' b. April 6. 1S20. 

Phebe, d. Jonathan and Elizabeth. 1>. May 30. 177S. 

Nancy, d. Enoch and Caroline, b. June 12, 1S51. 

John P., s. John J. and Eunice R., b. June 25, IVS43. 

Samuel U., s. " • b. Sept. 29, 1S45. 

Phebc J., d. " b. Jan. iS, 1S4S. 

Susan W., d. " b. March i, 1S50. 

, s. John J. and Eunice, b. Dec. 29. iS^i. 

Titcomb, Isaac, s. lienj. vS.. Jr.. and Sarah, b. Feb. 16. 1780. 

Samuel T.. s. Jeremiah and Rebecca, b. Sept. 10. 1S24. 

Jeremiah G., s. '• h. Sept. 10. 1S24. 

Mary E., d. '' b. Dec. 28, 1S25. 

Eliza A., d. '' b. July 12, 1S27, d. 

Oct. 22, 1S43. 

Luther C, s. " b. March 7, 1S30. 

Joseph P., s. " b. March 13, 1834. 

Rebeckah F.. d. " b. July 17, 1836. 

George P., s. " b. Sept. 8. 1838. 

Ann E., d. " b. Jan. 17, 1S43. 

Trumlndl, Lydia, d. Samuel and Mary, b. June 3. 1791, in 

Warner. 

Gardner, s. Simon and Sally, b. May 8, 1S03, d. Sept. 3, 

1825. 

Eliza, d. " b. May 14. 1S05. 

Rosvvell, s. " b. March 26, 1807. 

Rachel, d. " b. Sept. 29, 1809. 

Abial, s. " b. Jan. 19, i8ii. 



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Trumbull, Sam'l, s, Simon and Sally, b. July 36, 1813, d. Dec, 

1S19. 

Richard, s. " b. July 26, 1S15, d. July 

26, 1823. 

Sarah, A., d. " b. Jan. 6, 1819. 

Ezra, s. " b. May 10, 1S22. 

Betsey J., d. " b. April 26, 1829. 

Trussell, John, s. Moses and Judith, b. Jan. 31, 1788. 

Judith, d. Moses and Martha, b. May 14, 1794. 

Martha, d. " b. July 11, 1796, d. May 

26, 1842. 

Molly, d. " b. July 27, 179S. 

David, s. '* , b. Aug. 30, 1800. 

Seth, s. "- b. Sept. 24, 1802, d. Oct. 

7, 1S49. 

David, s. " b. Sept. 6, 1804, d. March 

II, 1845. 

Mary, d. " b. Dec. 6, 1807. 

William, s. " b. Feb. 19, 181 1. 

Benj. F., s. Amos and Mary, b. Sept. 23, 181 1. 

Otis G., S.Amos and Laura, b. Feb. 11. 1818. 

Mary W., d. " b. Oct. 5, 1819. 

James, s. " b. Aug. 25, 1821. 

Hannah S., d. '• b. Sept. 20, 1823. 

Jasper S., s. " b. July 23, 1825. 

Hambleton J., s. " b. May 27, 1828. 

Amos D., s. " b. Aug. 22, 1830. 

Irene, d. Moses, Jr., and Jane, b. Nov. 21, 1810. 

AlmenaD., d. " b. Oct. 9. 1813. 

Sarah F., d. " b. Dec. 24, 1818. 

HezekiahF., s. " b. May 17, 1823. 

Abigail J., d. " b. Aug. 10, 1829. 

Moses, s. William and Louisa, b. Nov. 28, 1S37. 

Martha F., d. " b. Nov. 23, 1843. 

Samuel D., s. David and Hannah, b. Feb. i, 1833. 

Mary, d. " b. Nov. 26, 1835. 

David, s. " b. Feb. 17. 1845. 

Moses W., s. Hezekiah and Susan, b. October 3, 1850. 



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Tuttle, Almira, d. Jotham T. and Abigail, b. Feb. 17, 1S05, in 

Essex, Mass. 
Maria, d. " b. Nov. 14, 1S06. 

John B., s. " b. June i, iSoS. 

Elbi-idge G., s. " b. Aug. 13, iSio. 

Erastus, s. " h. July 17, i8i3. 

William, s. " b. June 23, 1814, d. 

July 17, 1833. 
Abigail, d. " b. Feb. 4, 181S. 

Mary A., d. " b. Jan. 30, 1830, d. 

August, 1835. 
Eliza, d., " b. Oct. 34, 1833, d. 

August, 1S35. 
Daniel K., s. " b. April 17, 1824, 

d. August, 1825. 
Eliza A., d. " b. March 29, 1837, 

d. Dec. 33, 1837. 
Judith K.. d. " b. April 15, 1829. 

Lucy A., d. Elbridge and Sarah, b. March 19. 1S37. 
Mary A., d. " b. Nov. 14, 1842. 

Sarah J., d. " b. Feb. 14, 1845. 

Uran, Ilaiuiah, d. James and Mary. b. Dec. 4, 1779, d. Sept. 

16. 1853. 
Samuel, s. " b. July 16, 17S1. d. June 

33, 1 838. 
Anna, d. *' b. Jan. 16, 17S7. d. Aug. 

3, 1S31. 
Molly, d. " b. June 13, 17S9. d. Apr. 

8, 181S. 

Walker, Alvan. s. Israel and Phebe, b. April 4, iS[0. 

Sarah, d. '' b. Sept. 9, iSii. 

Betsey P.. d. " b. Sept. 13, 1814. 

Hannah, d. ^' b. July 4, 1S18. 

John R., s. " b. Jan. 3, 1833. 

Martin L., s. " b. March 8, 1835. 

Roxy A. K., d. " b. March 2, 1828. 

Silas C s. William and Hannah, b. Aug, 10, 1806. 



I«2 

Walker, Morrill, s. Lon and Sally, b. Jan. 24, 1S05. 

Willard, s. " b. Oct. 3, 1S06. 

Elvira, d. " b. Jan. 12, 1809. 

Emily G., d. Benjamin and Thankful, b. Oct. i, 1833, d. 

Nov. 19, 1850. 
Waldron, Thomas B., s. Jacob and Judith, b. Feb. 25, 1817, 

d. Apr. 26, 1845. 

Anna Mariah, d. " b. May 21, 1819, 

d. Feb. 20, 1837. 

Ezra, s. • " b. May 12, 1822. 

Isaac C, s. " b. Oct. 21. 1825. 

Judith, d. " b. June 26, 1S29. 

Warde, Samuel, s. Enoch and Mary, b. July 22, 1778. 

Mary, d. " b. Dec. 6, 1779. 

Watts, John, s. Thomas H. and Elisabeth, b. May 14, 1783. 
Watson, Samuel W., s. James and Hannah, b. July 3, 1816. 

Willard, s. " b. Aug. 4, 1818. 

Betsey, d. "■ b. Sept. 5, 1819. 

Cyrus W., s. " b. Oct. 9, 1824. 

Ellen M., d. Samuel W. and Abigail, b. Oct. 29, 1841. 

Ann E., d. " b. April 14, 1845. 

Mary F., d. " b. Jan. 29, 1847. 

Abby J., d. " b. March 11, 1849. 

Charles, s. Cyrus W. and Phebe A., b. Oct. 13, 1851. 
Webber, Amos, s. Edmund and Betsey, b, Nov. 11, 1800. 

Elmira, d. " b. Sept. 29, 1802. 

Eliza, d. " b. Feb. 28, 1808. 

Mary A., d. Amos and Nancy, b. June 21, 1829. 

Luther P., s. Luther and Joan, b. March 7, 1821^. 

Richard A., s. " b. May 12, 1839. 

Horatio, s. Richard and Harriet, b. Sept. 24, 1830. 

Brooks R., s. Maxamilian J. and Clarissa, b. Aug. 17, 

1837. 

Cyril T., s. Jeremiah S. and Roxanna D., b. April 12, 

1841. 
Webster, Stephen, s. Benjamin and Elisabeth, b. Dec. 30, 



Alice, d. Ezekiel and Alice, b. March 8, 1814. 
Mary A., d. ,, b. Aug. 27, 1816. 



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Webster, Charles \V., s. Worcester and Polly, b. Sept. 14, 

1S26. 

George, s. " b. . 

Nathaniel S., s. Nathaniel and Betsey, b. May 11, 1818. 

Ann R., d. " b. Nov. 26, 1S23. 

Mercy, d. Ebenezer and Betsey, b. Aug. 11, 1S20. 

Susan W., d. E. R. Webster, b. April 30, 1S51. d. Jan. 

20, 1S54. 
West, Hannah, d. Jonathan and Hannah, b. Sept. 4, 1770. 

James A., s. James and Isabella, b. Aug. 26, 1S27. 

Cynthia E., d. '• b. Jan. 20, 1S30. 

Whittier. Phinehas W., s. Enoch and Lucinda, b. Aug. 7, 

1S19. 

Amos H., s. " b. Feb. 25, 

1S25. 

Albert, s. " b. Aug. 18, 

1830. 

William W., s. Joseph and Victoria, b. Jan. 22, 1S30, d. 

April 16, 1849. 

Warren W., s. " b Oct. 3, 1832. 

Ellen, d. '' b. Nov. i, 1S35. 

George, s. Mark and Betsey, b. June 2, 1S08. 

Betsey, d. " b. Sept. 10, iSio. 

Olive, d. " b. March zG, 1813. 

Moses, s. " b. Aug. 4, 1S15. 

True P., s. Phinehas and Iluldah, b. May 23, 1822. 

Wyatt B., s. " b. Oct. 9, 1824. 

David J., s. " b. Nov. 16, 1829. 

John S., s. Moses and Olive, b. Oct. 14, 1S47. 

Mary E., d. " b. June 19. 1S50. 

Wilson, Abigail E., d. Thomas B. and Abigail, b. July 8, 1843. 

Mary B., d. " b. Oct. 16, 

Wood, Mariaime, d. Enoch G. and Martha G., b. Nov. t8, 

1848. 
Woodbury, Elizabeth, 'd. Ephraim and Lucy, b. Oct. 10, 1763. 

Martha, d. " b. Sept. 27, 1765, 

Deliverance, d. " b. April 1 1, 1768. 

Woodman, Mary J., d. Samuel and Sarah, b. Dec. 6, 1808. 

Ruth, d. " b. Oct. 16, 1814. 



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Woodman, Harriet J., d. Samuel, Jr., and Dorcas, b. Jan. lo, 

1813. 
Lovry, " b. July 24, 

1S16. 
Mirriam, d. " b. July 16, 

iS"i8. 
George L., s. " b. Feb. 17, 

1S24. 
George, s. Eben and Apphia, b. May 21, 1816. 
William R., s. Ruth Woodman, b. Dec. 29, 1S37. 
John P., s. Andrew and Hannah, b. June 13, 1824. 
Henretta C, d. " b. Aug. 31, 1826. 

Louisa I., d. " b. July 22, 1828. 

Lovilla E., d. " b. July 22, 1828. 

Frances A., d. " b. May 23, 1830. 

Woodward, Daniel S., b. June 17, 1804, in Springfield. 

Elisabeth A., d. Daniel S. and Dorcas A., b. Sept. 22, 1828. 
Hannah S., d. " b. Nov. i, 1830. 

Phebe L., d. " b. Jan. 7, 1832. 

Daniel R., s. " b. Apr. 10, 1833 

Stephen, s. " b. Aug. 22, 1834 

Albin A., s. " b. May 22, 1836 

Dorcas A., d. " b. Feb. 22, 1S38 

Diana, d. " b. Sept. 22, 1S39 

Perlena, d. " b. Sept. 7, 1842 

d. Oct. 8, J 844 
Frances R., d. " b. Feb. 9, 1845 



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The following Names were not on the regular 

Town Record, but on the Proprietors' 

Record, and were omitted. 

Batchelder, Sarah, d. Abraham and Sarah, b. July 12, 1750. 

Abigail, d. '• b. Oct. 5, 1751. 

Bishop, Josiah. s. Enos and Elizabeth, b. Oct. 7, 1750. 

Mercy, d. '' b. March 12, 1752. 

Bohonon, .Sarah, d. Andrew and Tabitha, b. Jan. 22, 1736. 

Andrew, s. •• b. Aug. iS, 173S. 

John, s. " b. Feb. 29, 1740. 

Jacob, s. " b. Nov. 22, 1741. 

Annaniah, s. " b. July 22, 1743. 

Burbank, Moses, s. Moses and Sarah, b. June 26, 1741. 

David, s. " b. Aug. iS, 1743. 

Molly E.,d. " b. Feb. 20, 1749. 

Sarah, d. '' b. June 6, 1752. 

Call, Hannah, d. Moses and Mehetable, b. Sept. 6, 1751. 
Carter, Jesse, s. Thomas and Judith, b. Oct. 29, 1750. 

David, s. " b. Jan. 5, 17^3- 

Danford, Abigail, d. Nathaniel and Pricilla, b. Jan. 7, 1735. 

Sarah, d. " b. May 16, 1738. 

Digodon, William, s. William and Jane, b. Julv 3, 1736. 

Peggee, d. •• 1). May 4. 1740. 

Anne, d. " b. Apr. 28, 1741. 

Nathaniel, s. " b. May 3, 1743. 

Sarah, d. " b. Oct. 6, 1745. 

Easman, Jeremiah, s. Joseph and Dorothy, b. Feb. 9, 1740- 
Emery, Edward, s. Edward and Sarah, b. Mar. 10, 1739. 
*Emey, William, s. William and Mary, b. 175 1. 
Fitz Gerald, Jane, d. Edward and Mehetable, b. Jan. 12, 174^.^ 

Mary, d. " b. Jan. 24, 1744 

Sarah, d. " b. Feb. 14, 1746 

James, s. " b. Aug. 10, 1748 

Rebecca, d. " b. Aug. 10, 1748 

Edward, s. " b. Oct. 24, 1751 

Susanna, d. " b. Oct. 24, 1753 

Dorcas, d. " b. May 15, 1756 

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Flanders, Enos, s. Ezekiel and Sarah, b. Feb. 8, 1745. 

Sarah, d. " b. Dec. 2, 1747. 

Sussana, d. " b. Nov. 21, 1749. 

Aaron, s. John and Eunice, b. Aug. 5, 1750. 

John, s. " b. Oct. 13, 1752. 

Betty', d. " b. June 13, 1755. 

Fowler, Samuel, s. John and Elizabeth, b. May 14, 1743. 

Lucy, d. " b. Apr. 13, 1745. 

Abigail, d. " b. June 10, 174S.' 

Gerrish, Henry, s. Stephen and Joanna, b. May 2, 1742, d. May 

16, 1806. 

Jane, " b. Apr. 20, 1745. 

Samuel, " b. Apr. 20, 174S. 

Enoc, s. " b. Jan. 16, 1750. 

Jackman, Richard, s. Richard and Martha, b. Oct. 6, 1740. 

John, s. " b. Aug. 24, 1743. 

Moses, s. " b. Apr. 26, 1746. 

_- Samuel, s. " b. Mar. 17, 1749. 

Sarah, d. " b. Sept. 11, 1751. 

Sarah, d. " b. Sept. 29, 1755. 

Benjamin, s. George and Hannah, b. May 7, 1743, d. Nov. 

26, 1836. 
Manwell, Joel, s. Joel and Tabitha, b. Nov. 20, 1736. 

Moses, s. " b. Sept. 13, 1738. 

Elisabeth, d. " b. Aug. 14, 1748. 

Meloon, Sarah, d. Nathaniel and Rachell,b. 1739. 

Nathaniel, s. " b. Mar. 27, 1741. 

Mary, d. " b. May 29, 1743. 

Rachell, d. " b. Jan. 29, 1744. 

John, s. " b. Oct. 24, 1748. 

Sarah, d. " b. Apr. 6, 1753. 

Daniel, s. " b. Mar. 3, 1751. 

Stevens, Jane, d. Rev. Phineas and Jane, b. Jan. 20, 1743. 

Sarah, d. " b. May 26, 1748. 

Abigail, d. Rev. Phineas and Sarah, b. Nov. 12, 1749. 

John, s. " b. Mar. 7, 1752. 

Phineas, " b. Apr. 2, 1754. 

Rev. Phineas died Jan. 19, 1755- 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 



CHARLES HUBBARD AMSDEN. 

Isaac Amsden, the first of the Amsden name who is recorded 
in this country, appears in Cambridge, Mass.. where he was 
married 8 June. 1654. to Frances Peniman. He is supposed 
to have come from Enghmd. and died in Cambridge, 7 April, 
1659, leaving two children. 

Isaac, ^ their son, was born at Cambridge in 16^5, and mar- 
ried Jane Rutter 17 May, 1677. He died 3 May, 1727. She 
died 22 November, 1739. leaving six children. 

John,' third son of Isaac,* born at Marlboro', Mass., 28 
December, 1683. died at vSouthboro', Mass., 12 November, 
1 761. He married Hannah, daughter of Isaac and Frances 
(Woods) Howe, of Marlboro', Mass., who was born 17 June, 
l688, and had twelve children. 

Jesse,* son of John.' was born at Southboro'. Mass., 31 Mav, 
1729. He married Bettie Ball, of Southboro'. 10 November, 

1748, and had twelve children. 

Jonas,'' son of Jesse,* was born at Southboro' 24 April, 

1749, and married Hannah Rice 9 August, 1770. He died at 
Mason, N. H.. 20 March. 1S02. She died at Mason 27 Feb- 
ruary, 1809. They had nine children. 

Hubbard,® son of Jonas,* was born in 1790, and died 16 
September, 1S17. He married Annie Saunders, of Mason, 8 
March, 1814. and had two children. 

Henrv Hubbard," son of Hubbard,'' was born 14 Septem- 
ber, 1816, and married Mary Muzzey, of New Ipswich, 6 Au- 
gust, 1840. He died at Fenacook, 6 December, 1869. 



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Childrefi of Henry Hubbard and Mary (Muzzey) A msden . 

1. George Henry, b. 7 July, 1841, d. 16 January, 1872. 

2. Charles Hubbard, b. 20 May, 1846, d. 29 October, 1847. 

3. Charles Hubbard, b. 8 July, 1848. 

4. Edward, b. 10 December, 1853, d. 9 June, 1858. 

Charles Hubbard^ (Henry Hubbard, '^ Hubbard," Jonas, ^ 
Jesse,* John,^ Isaac," Isaac ^) was born in Boscawen 8 July, 
1848. In early life he attended the public schools, and in Au- 
gust, 1S63, went to New Ipswich, where he attended Appleton 
Academy, remaining there until the spring of 1865. On return- 
ing home, he entered the employ of Caldwell & Amsden, fur- 
niture manufacturers, and continued with them until December, 
1868, when the firm of H. H. Amsden & Sons succeeded Cald- 
well & Amsden, the same being composed of Henry H. and his 
two sons (George H. and Charles H.), and Charles H. Allen, 
of Boston. The senior member of the firm died 6 December, 
1S69, and the surviving partners continued the business until 
the death of George H., which occurred 16 January, 1872. 
The remaining partners conducted the business until i Jan- 
uary, 1880, when Charles H. bought his partner's interest, and 
since has carried on the business under the same firm name. 

Mr. Amsden is also associated with John Whitaker in the 
lumber business, having one of the best mills in the central part 
of the state, the product of which is used by Mr. Amsden in 
the manufacture of furniture. 

Believing that New Hampshire is a good state for manufact- 
uring, it has been Mr. Amsden's aim to encourage and aid it all 
he could, and to this end has engaged with associates in other 
branches of business, being at the present time the president of 
the Concord Axle Company, a director in the Contoocook Man- 
ufacturing and Mechanic Company of Penacook, and of the Me- 
chanicks National Bank of Concord. He is also state director 
of the Portland & Ogdensburgh Railroad. Everything of a 
deserving public nature has his encouragement and assistance, 
so far as possible. He is a liberal contributor to benevolent 
objects. In religious views he is a Baptist, having become a 
member of that church and society at an early age, and is one 
of the liberal supporters of the church and society with which 
he is connected. 



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On 29 October. 1S70, he married Helen A., daughter of 
David A. and Martha A. (Daggett) Brown, of Penacook. 
Of this union there was born to them, 15 July, 1S72, a son, 
Henry Hubbard, who is now living; also, 31 January, 1S78, 
a daughter, Mary Ardclle, who died 20 October, 1S83. 

Being of a retiring disposition, and having his time so much 
taken up by business cares, he has never sought public honors 
to any great extent. He represented his ward in the board of 
aldermen in the city of Concord in 1S74, and was unanimously 
returned in 1S75. He was also a member of the state senate in 
1 883. 

Mr. Amsden is now in the prime of life. and. owing to force 
of circumstances, his business career has already been more 
extended than the average of men at his age. Filling various 
positions of trust and responsibility with commendable accept- 
abilitv. it has been his aim to merit and receive the esteem and 
confidence of his associates and constituents. 



SAMUEL COLCORD BARTLETT. 

Samuel Colcord Bartlett, d. d. (Dartmouth college, 1S61), 
LL. D. (College of New Jersey, 187S), Congregationalist ; born 
at Salisbury, N. H., 25 Nov., 1S17; graduated at Dartmouth 
college, 1836, and at Andover Theological Seminar}', 1842 ; 
became successively pastor at Monson, Mass., 1843 ; professor 
of intellectual philosophy in the Western Reserve college, Hud- 
son, O., 1846; pastor at Manchester, N. H., 1852; pastor in 
Chicago, 111., and professor of bibical literature in the Congre- 
gational Theological Seminary, Chicago, 111., 1857; resigned 
pastorate, but retained professorship, 1859; pi'esident of Dart- 
mouth college, Hanover, N. H., 1877. He is " in substantial 
accord with the modified Calvinism of New England, as repre- 
sented by Andover Seminary in the time of Woods, Stuart, B. B. 
Edwards, and Park ; welcoming all new light, from whatever 
source, upon the text, composition, or interpretation of the 
scriptures, or the doctrines thence legitimately resulting; but 
resisting all baseless theories and rash speculations, and, in gen- 



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eral, declining to surrender tlie matured and well established 
convictions of the great mass of intelligent evangelical Chris- 
tians, except on valid evidence." He was the first on the ground 
to open and organize the Chicago Congregational Theological 
Seminary, and raised the funds for endowing the chair he occu- 
pied. He aided also in the organization of numerous churches 
in Illinois. He crossed the desert of Et Tih to Palestine (1874) 
with a view to compare in detail all the circumstances and con- 
ditions of the region with the narrative of the journey of the 
children of Israel. Besides numerous articles in the Bibliotheca 
Sacra, The Ne-iv-E7igIa7ider, The North American Review^ 
orations at the centennial of the battle of Bennington, the quar- 
ter-millennial celebration of Newburyport, and at literary anni- 
versaries, he has written "Life and Death Eternal, a Refuta- 
tion of the Doctrine of Annihilation," Boston, 1S66, 2d ed. 
1S7S ; "Sketches of the Missions of the A. B. C. F. M.," 1872 ; 
"Future Punishment," 1S75 ; " From Egypt to Palestine, Ob- 
servations of a Journey," New York, 1879 ; "Sources of His- 
tory in the Pentateuch," 1883. During the eight years of his 
college presidency, the institution has received cash additions 
to its funds amounting to $400,000, and has undergone impor- 
tant expansions and improvements, including the endowment 
of five professorships and the erection of a fii-e-proof library 
building and the Rollins chapel. 



CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN. 

Charles Carleton Cofiin, journalist, correspondent, author, 
historian, son of Thomas Coffin, was born 26 July, 1823. 
His early years were spent on the farm. His education, be- 
yond the advantages of a public school, were a few terms at 
the academy in the town, and a single term at Pembroke acad- 
emy. Sickness debarred him from a collegiate course. Inca- 
pacitated for a short time for physical labor, more for pastime 
than from any plan for the future he studied land-surveying 
and the rudiments of civil engineering. The time came, how- 
ever, when he could turn his slight knowledge thus gained to 
account by accepting a position on the engineering corps 



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engaged in the construction of the Northern (New Hamp- 
shire), the Concord & Portsmouth, and Concord & Clare- 
mont raihoads. He early began to write articles for the local 
press, some of which were copied into LitteWs Living Age 
and other magazines. He became a contributor to The Knick- 
erbocker^ then recognized as the leading literary magazine of 
the country. His studies in engineering led him also toward 
scientific culture, and he became a member of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science, contributing pa- 
pers at its meeting in Montreal, 1S53, and Newport and Spring- 
field in subsequent years. In 1S49 '^^ constructed the telegraph 
line between Harvard Observatory and Boston, by which uni- 
form time was first given to the railroads leading from Boston. 
He also had charge of the construction of the telegraphic fire 
alarm in Boston, and gave the first alarm ever given by that 
system, 29 April, 1S52. 

Although engaged in such labor, he found time to make fre- 
quent contributions to the daily and weekly press of Boston, 
and in 1S52 decided to devote himself to journalism. For a 
short time he was assistant editor of The Practical Farmer^ 
an agricultural and literary weekly. In 1S54 he was employed 
on the Boston yournal^ and was subsequently assistant editor 
of the Atlas, which was merged into the Bee, from which he 
returned to the yoiirnaK employed as editor of the morning 
edition during the winter of iS6o-'6i. 

Upon the breaking out of the war, Mr. Coffin became a 
correspondent of the Journah writing over the signature of 
''Carleton," was present at the first battle of Bull Run, reached 
Washington during the niglit, and sent a full account of the 
action on the following morning. In the fall he joined the 
Army of the West, and sent an account of the taking of Fort 
Henry, which was republished in the papers of New York, 
Philadelphia, and Baltimore before any other account was pub- 
lished. Mr. Coffin was at the surrender of Fort Donelson, 
reported the movements of the Army of the West from Pitts- 
burg landing to Corinth, the operations of Island No. 10, New 
Madrid, Fort Pillow, and the battle of the gunboats at Mem- 
phis, viewing it from the deck of one of Admiral Davis's ves- 
sels. Returning to the Army of the Potomac, he witnessed the 



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battles of Antietam and Fredericksburg. Knowing that a 
powerful fleet of monitors was on its way to attack Fort Sum- 
ter, he visited the Department of the South, and witnessed the 
attack and repulse, and also the failure, at Fort McAllister. 

During the twelve days of the Gettysburg campaign, Mr. 
Coffin rode between two hundred and fifty and three hundred 
miles in the saddle, more than nine hundred in the cars, was 
on the battle-field three days and nights, and wrote a full and 
elaborate account, which was republished in many papers 
throughout the countr}', and was translated and copied by the 
press of Berlin and Paris. When Gen. Sherman reached the 
sea-coast, he hastened south, and the information that the flag 
of the Union was once more floating over Sumter was first 
given to the world through the yotirnal^ and was telegraphed 
over the country before any paper in New York had possession 
of the intelligence. In the campaign of 1864, the Journal cor- 
respondent was an eye-witness of every engagement from the 
Wilderness to Petersburg, and of nearly all the battles around 
Petersburg and Richmond, which city he entered upon its 
occupation by the Union troops. The correspondence of Mr. 
Coffin was accepted by the public as authentic, and gave the 
Boston Jojirnal ?^ wide circulation. His letters were regularly 
read by inore than a quarter of a million of people. 

Upon the breaking out of the war between Austria on the 
one side, and Prussia and Italy on the other, in 1866, Mr. Cof- 
fin, accompanied by Mrs. Coffin, sailed for Europe ; but Aus- 
tria having been crippled by the single battle of Konnigratz, a 
truce was declared. Mr. Coffin remained abroad, however, 
writing a series of letters on current events. He visited Italy ; 
saw the occupation of Venice by the Italians ; reported the 
Paris exhibition of 1S67 ; reported the scenes in the house of 
parliament in England on the reform bill ; was present at the 
coronation of the emperor of Austria as king of Hungary ; 
made the acquaintance of many of the public men of Europe; 
visited Greece, Turkey, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt ; embarked 
at Suez for Bombay ; travelled across India before the comple- 
tion of the railroad ; visited Malacca, Singapore, Hong Kong, 
and Shanghai ; sailed up the Yang-tze six hundred miles ; vis- 
ited Japan ; crossed the Pacific to California, and the plains 



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before the completion of the Pacific Raihoad, having been 
absent two years and five months. His correspondence during 
these years was widely read. 

Mr. Coffin was at once in request in the lecture-field, and for 
several years was one of the popular lecturers before Ivceums. 
The first volume from his pen was "My Days and Nights on 
the Battle-Field," issued 1S63 ; the second was "Following the 
Flag," followed by the widely read books, " Winning His Way," 
"Our New Way Round the World," "The Seat of Empire," 
"Caleb Krinkle" (a story), "Boys of '76," ''Stories of Lib- 
erty," "Old Times in the Colonies," "Building the Nation," 
and "Life of Garfield," besides a history of his native town. 

Mr. Coffin has ever taken a lively interest in educational 
matters, especially in history for the young people. His his- 
torical series was projected to bring before the boys and girls 
the meaning of our country's history ; the philosophy of the 
government of the people, — its development and end. This 
series has been received witli remarkable favor, and is to be 
found in nearly every libiary in the country and in many public 
schools. 

Mr. Coffin has given several addresses before teachers' asso- 
ciations. At the St. Albans meeting of the American Institute 
of Instruction his theme was " The Future of Our Country, as 
Foreshadowed by its Physical Conditions." During the winter 
of iS78-'79 a movement was made by Western and Southern 
grangers to bring about a radical change in the patent laws of 
the country. Air. Coffin appeared before the committee of 
congress, and presented an argument abounding in historical 
research, and so convincing that the committee ordered its pub- 
lication. He also appeared before the Committee on Labor, 
and made an argument on the "Complaint of Labor, or The 
Forces of Nature as afiecting Society," which won the highest 
encomiums, and which was also printed. During the winter of 
iSSo he gave a course of lectures before the Lowell Institute on 
" Discovery and Invention as afiecting Society." The honor- 
ary degree of xV. M. was conferred upon him bv Amherst col- 
lege in 1S70. He is an active member of the New England 
Historic and Genealogical Society, and also a member of the 
American Geographical Society. He was selected by the citi- 



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zens of his native town to give the centennial address. 4th of 
July, 1876, and also the address at the celebration of the one 
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its settlement. 

Mr. Coffin was elected to the Massachusetts legislature by 
the citizens of Boston in 1884 and 1885. As a member of the 
Committee on Education, he reported and carried through a bill 
making text-books free to all scholars of the public schools. — 
the first of the kind in the world. He was also a member of 
the Committee on Civil Service, and it was largely through his 
ertorts that the enactment of the civil service law for the state 
was secured. In 1SS5 he was made chairman of a Special Com- 
mittee on the Police S\stem of Boston, which had become no- 
toriously inefficient, and under the influence largely of the 
liquor traffic. A large majority of the committee i^eported "In- 
expedient to legislate." Mr. Coffin made a minority report, 
with a bill taking the appointing power from the mayor and 
investing it in the governor and council. The combined liquor 
interest of Boston, aggregating seventy-five millions of capital, 
was arrayed against the bill. The contest for its passage lasted 
many weeks, and was fought on the part of the opponents of 
the bill by a resort to every kno.wn parliamentary device to pre- 
vent its passage. The struggle was one of the most notable 
ever had in the Massachusetts legislature, resulting in the tri- 
umphant passage of the bill. Mr. Coffin also reported and se- 
cured the passage of a bill closing all liquor saloons on election 
days. In recognition of his public services a banquet was held 
in his honor and in that of his coadjutor in the senate, Mr. 
Frank Ames, given at the Hotel Vendome by the citizens of 
Boston. Mr. Coffin declined a reelection in 1886, to give his 
attention to private aftairs. 

In September, 1885, on the anniversary of the battle of Win- 
chester, Va., he gave an oration in that city upon the causes of 
the war of the Rebellion and the place of that war in history, 
which won high praise alike from the people of that city and 
from the veterans of the Union army for its freedom from bit- 
terness, for its patriotic sentiment, and for its far-reaching survey 
of the meaning of the mighty struggle. 




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ENOCH GERRISH. 

The name of Genish has been prominently identified with 
the town ofBoscavven. Captain Stephen Genish was one of 
the original proprietors ofBoscawen, and one of the leading 
spirits in the new settlement. His eldest son. Colonel Henry 
Gerrish, was a distinguished citizen, and held many positions 
of trust and responsibility. He was chosen the first grand 
juror to '' His Majesty's Superior Court," 1773, delegate to the 
convention for the choice of members to the first continental 
congress in 1774, the same in 1775. represented the towns of 
Boscawen and Salisbury in the general court in i779' •^"'^ Bos- 
cawen in 1790. He was captain in the militia at the breaking 
out of the Revolution, and marched with the minute men to 
Medford upon the receipt of the news of the battle of Lexing- 
ton. He was lieutenant-colonel of Stickney's regiment at the 
time of the Bennington campaign, but, having been detailed to 
other duty, was not in the battle. He was present at the sur- 
render of Burgoyne, being on the left flank of Burgoyne at Bat- 
tenkill, where he acted as clerk at the sale of some of the plun- 
der taken from the British. The mess-book used on that occa- 
sion is still in existence. He often acted as town's agent during 
the Revolution, performing the duties assigned him with the 
same care and energy that characterized the management of 
his private affairs. 

Major Enoch Gerrish, third son of Captain Stephen, was 
born in Boscawen, 23 June, 1750. When eighteen years of 
age he built his log cabin on the east side of the road now 
called High street, where he cleared five acres of land, being 
part of the homestead where he and his posterity have since 
resided. He had a love for military parade, as his title indi- 
cates. During his life he was chosen to fill the offices of mod- 
erator, selectman, and representative to the general court nine 
years. A man strictly religious, he joined Dr. Wood's church 
in i77i» <*'^d was elected deacon in 1783, an office which he 
held until his death, i May, 1S21. 

His son, Isaac Gerrish, father of Colonel Enoch, was born 
in Boscawen, 27 November, 1782. He was an honored citi- 
zen, and a leading member of the church in that town. 



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Colonel Enoch Gerrish, the subject of this sketch, only son 
of Isaac and Caroline (Lawrence) Gerrish, was born at the old 
homestead on High street, 28 July, 1S22. He obtained his 
education at the academies in Boscawen, Franklin, and Meri- 
den. On the death of his father he inherited a large portion of 
his estate, and with it at the age of twenty came the care and 
management of an extensive farm. An addition of more than 
one hundred acres made it one of the largest in Merrimack 
county. For twenty years he devoted his time to the cultiva- 
tion and improvement of his soil, successfully developing its 
resources by raising live-stock, hay, and wool, when its heavy 
growth of wood and timber attracted the attention of the lumber 
manufacturer, to whom it was sold in 1S65. 

Possessing a love for military parade and drill, he was pro- 
moted from the lowest rank to that of colonel of the Twenty- 
first regiment New Hampshire militia. He was often elected 
to fill the various offices in town, the duties of which were well 
performed. A friend to the church where his ancestors wor- 
shipped, and to religious institutions generally, he manifested 
an interest in all measures that contributed to their usefulness. 

He moved to Concord after the sale of his farm, where his 
sound judgment, particularly in matters of finance, was duly 
appreciated, as is shown by his appointment as one of the trus- 
tees of the New Hampshire Savings Bank in Concord, and of 
the Rolfe and Rumford asylum. 

He represented ward four of Concord in the legislature of 
i88i-'82. He married Miranda O., daughter of Joseph S. and 
Harriet N. Lawrence, 23 May, 1854. Their children are 
Frank Lawrence, born 19 May, 1855, and Lizzie Miranda, born 
14 June, i860. 

EZRA SHELDON HARRIS. 

Ezra Sheldon,^ Almon,^ Bethuel,^ of Scottish origin, son of 
Almon and Phebe Harris, born 27 November, 1827, married 
(i) Cassandra Andromache, daughter of Nathan B. and Lucy 
C. Greene, 20 June, i860. She died 5 November, 1865. He 
married (2) Sarah Amelia, sister of Cassandra, 12 October, 
1867. 




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Children of Cassandra. 
Grace Greene, b. 14 October, 1S63. 
Robert Lincoln, b. 3 May, 1865. 

Children of Sarah. 
Harry Sheldon, b. 24 August, 1868. 
Almon Green, b. 24 January, 1870. 
Lucy Cassandra, b. 3 November, 1874. 

Ezra S. and Almon, his brother, settled in Boscawen (Pena- 
cook), and continued the business established by their father 
and themselves under the name and style of E. S. Harris & Co. 
In 1SS2 Ezra S. purchased the interest of his brother. Almon 
A., in the firm of E. S. Harris & Co., and continued the busi- 
ness founded by Almon Harris in 1S47, which has been in- 
creased five fold by enlarging the capacity for manufactming 
woollen goods since that date. 

Mr. Harris manages his business matters very carefully, mak- 
ing his own purchases, keeping his books, and attending to his 
correspondence ; is thoroughly skilled in all its various depart- 
ments, having been in the business most of his life ; refusing to 
take any office (save one year he was one of the selectmen), 
preferring to take care of his own matters rather than trust 
them to others; contributing largely to the support of religious 
and educational institutions, his influence ever on the side of 
right. He has manv friends, and is much respected by all. 



JOHN KIMBALL. 

John Kimball, son of Benjamin Kimball and Ruth Ames, 
was born in Canterbury, 13 April, 1821. When he was tliir- 
teen years of age his father died, leaving, also, a daughter 
(Elizabeth) nine years old, and another son (Benjamin A.) 
less than a year old. The widowed mother had already buried 
two children in infancy, and six years later lost the daughter ; 
but she lived forty years longer, and enjoyed the highest felicity 
of a mother, seeing her two stalwart sons grow prosperously to 
man's estate, achieving riches and honors, unblemished in life 
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elder son naturally aroused in him tender devotion to a mother 
and brother so dependent upon him, animated him to earnest 
and persistent eftbrt, developed in him strong self-reliance, and 
laid broad and deep the foundations of those qualities of heart 
and mind which now distinguish him. 

He attended the town schools of Boscawen, and during the 
year 1837 the Concord academy. In 1838 he was apprenticed 
as a machinist to William Moody Kimball, his father's cousin, 
then engaged in constructing mills and machinery at Boscawen, 
and in four years he mastered his trade. His first work after 
coming of age was, in 1842, to rebuild the grist-mills in the 
valley near the north end of Boscawen Plain, which are still in 
use ; and he worked at his trade in Suncook, Manchester, 
Lowell, and Lawrence. 

In 184S he took charge of the new machine- and car-shops of 
the Concord Railroad, then building at Concord, and in 1850 
became master mechanic of that corporation, continuing in the 
position until 1S58. Twenty years of unremitting work in me- 
chanical construction had brought him to the summit of his 
vocation, possessing thorough, practical skill, having acquired 
an unusual share of common-sense in human affairs, and, with 
habits of industry, temperance, and self-reliance, sure to give 
him a fair measure of success in any new calling which he 
might choose. Henceforth his life's work was to be indifferent 
fields. His neighbors and friends had discovered his integrity 
and capacity, and they commenced to utilize them in public 
employment. 

In 1856 Mr. Kimball had been elected a member of the com- 
mon council of the city of Concord, and reelected in 1857, and 
chosen president of the council. In 1858 he was elected to the 
state legislature, was reelected in 1S59, '*"'^ served as chairman 
of the Committee on the State Prison. In 1859 he relinquished 
other employment to serve as city marshal of Concord and col- 
lector of taxes, from which office he was, in 1862, appointed by 
President Lincoln to the post of collector of internal revenue for 
the second district of New Hampshire, consisting of the coun- 
ties of Merrimack and Hillsborough, and served until he re- 
signed in 1869. His collections, which included the tax on 
manufactures from the mills of Manchester, were very heavy 



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for a country district, and amounted in the seven years to nearly 
seven millions of dollars. No revenue district in the country 
established a better rej^utation. His methods of collection, 
while thorough, were quiet, and gave no offence, and his ad- 
ministration was in all respects faultless. In the office of the 
commissioner of internal revenue at Washington his record has 
always been referred to as one of the very highest. 

In 1S70 Mr. Kimball was elected treasurer of the Merrimack 
County Savings Bank, then first organized. He has held the 
office ever since, and now conducts its business, for which he 
has been largely responsible, the bank being a profitable and 
successful institution. 

Mr. Kimball was elected mayor of the city of Concord in 
1872, and reelected in 1873, 1874, and 1S75. The duties of this 
honorable, responsible, but perplexing office he discharged with 
zeal and firmness, and to the satisfaction of the citizens. It fell 
to his lot to construct an unusual number of public works, which 
will long endure to testify to his capacity and fidelity. A freshet 
having carried away or rendered impassable five of the seven 
wooden bridges spanning the Merrimack and Contoocook riv- 
ers, the work of rebuilding devolved on him as the superinten- 
dent of roads and bridges. The new structures are of the most 
substantial character, — two, the Federal bridge and that atPen- 
acook, being of iron, of modern design. The central fire sta- 
tion, built by him, is also an edifice attractive as well as com- 
modious and convenient. Complaints of the cost of Mr. Kim- 
ball's constructions as mayor have long since ceased, in view of 
the universally admitted integrity of all expenditures upon them, 
and their solidity and permanency, as well as of the credit which 
they have brought to our beautiful city. During his adminis- 
tration the Long Pond water-works were constructed, bringing 
to the centime of Concord a copious supply of the purest water, 
at a cost of $425,000, economically and skilfully expended. 
He became ex officio one of the water commissioners, and in 
1878 president of the board, in which position he has ever smce 
been kept. Blossom Hill cemetery was doubled in size ; the 
streets of the city were improved in accordance with modern 
requirements ; the system of sewerage was enlarged ; new and 
attractive school-houses were constructed ; and, without any 



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discredit to other mayors, it may be claimed that it happened 
to him to render more important and Uisting service than any 
other official from the adoption of the city charter in 1S53 to the 
present time. For his success he must have been largely in- 
debted to the skill acquired during his long and laborious expe- 
rience in the practical business of his youth and early manhood. 

In 1877, unexpectedly, and without solicitation or suggestion 
from any one. Governor Benjamin F. Prescott and his council 
appointed Mr. Kimball as chairman of the board of commis- 
sioners to build the new state prison at Concord, with Messrs. 
Albert M. Shaw and Alpha J. Pillsbury as his associates. In 
1880 the edifice was completed v\ithin the limits of the moder- 
ate appropriation of $235,000, a model in its design and con- 
struction, remarkable for the honesty and cheapness which had 
characterized the establishment of a penitentiary superior, all 
things considered, to any prison of other states. 

Repeated nominations and elections of any citizen by his 
friends and neighbors to local offices, not in any way improp- 
ei'ly procured, but conferred solely from popular esteem and 
desire, must be taken to indicate ability and true excellence. 
Mr. Kimball not only held the elective offices already men- 
tioned, but was, for eleven successive years from 1861, moder- 
ator of ward 5, Concord, and was elected a member of the con- 
stitutional convention of 1876, in which he was chairman of 
the committee on finance. He was, in November, iSSo, chosen 
state senator by the larger constituency comprised within the 
principal wards in Concord ; and at the meeting of the legisla- 
ture, in June, 1881, he was, by general consent of his party as- 
sociates, selected for president of the senate, in rank the second 
officer in the state. The duties of this high position he per- 
formed creditably, with courtesy and dignity, and to the satis- 
faction of his fellow-members, as indicated by their unanimous 
resolution and their speeches of approval of the i8th of August, 
which were accompanied by an appropriate testimonial of their 
good-will. 

Additional trusts i^eposed in him have been the presidency of 
the Concord Gas-Light Company ; his appointment, by Mr. 
Chief-Justice Doe, as one of the trustees of the Manchester & 
Keene Railroad ; the treasurerships of the New Hampshire 



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Bible Society and the Orphans' Home : the settlement and 
management of many estates of persons deceased, and of bene- 
ficiaries of all kinds, the amounts now in his care reaching sev- 
eral hundred thousand dollars. The trusted citizen, banker, 
and friend, to whom is so freely committed the property of 
widows and orphans, can possess no higher evidence of integ- 
rity and worth. 

In person Mr. Kimball is tall, erect, and of commanding 
presence ; well preserved at the age of sixty-four, in good 
health, and with good prospects for longevity. His modes of 
life are regular, and he is a total abstainer through conviction 
and habit. While firm and decided in his views, he is genial 
and courteous in personal intercourse. His mind has been well 
cultivated. He is a careful reader, \\ ith an inclination for gen- 
ealogical and historical research, and he writes and speaks with 
precision and etlect. He is faithful in every relation of life, 
public and domestic, and is valued ami beloved by his neigh- 
bors and friends. 

In 1S43 he joined the Congregational church in Boscawen, 
has continued his connection with that denomination, and is 
now a member of the South Congregational church in Concord. 
He is free from bigotry, pretence, and intolerance, is a just and 
good man, serving his God faitlifully according to the light he 
possesses, performing his every duty, and bearing his every 
burden without complaint. 

May 27, 1S46, at the age of twenty-five, Mr. Kimball mar- 
ried Maria H. Phillips, of Rupert, Vt. Their only chikU 
Clara Maria, born 20 March, 1S48, married. 14 June, 1S73, 
Mr. Augustine R. Ayers, a successt'ul mercliant in Concord. 
Six children — Ruth Ames, John Kimball, Helen McGregor, 
Joseph Sherburne, Josiah Phillips, and Augustine Haines — 
have been born to them. All are now living except Joseph 
Sherburne and Josiah Phillips. 



BENJAMIN AMES KIMBALL, 

The son of Benjamin and Ruth (Ames) Kimball, was born in 
Boscawen, 22 August, 1S33. He received his preparatory ed- 
ucation at the high school in Concord, and at Prof. Hildreth's 
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school in Derry. He entered the Chandler Scientific Depart- 
ment of Dartmouth college at the opening of that department 
of the college in 185 1, to fit himself for his chosen profession 
of mechanical engineer. He acquitted himself with credit in 
all the branches prescribed in the course of study, and was es- 
pecially excellent in mathematics and draughting. His class 
was small, but it was composed of men who entered college 
with the purpose of making the most of themselves, and they 
worked with a will. He graduated with honor, 27 July, 
1854, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science i Aug., 1854. 

Mr. Kimball entered the employ of the Concord Railroad as 
draughtsman and machinist, and was promoted i April, 1856, 
to be foreman of the locomotive department. January i, 1858, 
he succeeded his brother as master mechanic at the age of 
twentv-six years. He continued in this position until i April, 
1865, when he resigned to become a member of the firm of 
Ford & Kimball, manufacturers of brass and iron castings, a 
business still successfully carried on by them. In 1870 he was 
elected a member of the house of representatives from ward 6, 
Concord, but declined a reelection in 187 1. 

He was a member of a special committee appointed by the 
city council of Concord, in 1871, to procure plans and specifi- 
cations for an aqueduct to bring a supply of water from Long 
Pond ; and in January following he was appointed a member of 
the board of water commissioners, to construct the works, sub- 
stantially upon the plan and under the ordinance submitted by 
that committee. He continued an active member of the board 
for six years, and was its president for three years. In 1876 he 
was elected a member of the constitutional convention to revise 
the constitution of the state, and proved an efficient and valu- 
able member of that assembly. 

He has been connected with the banking interests of the city 
for many years. He was trustee and president of the Concord 
Savings Bank until compelled to resign by ill-health, and is 
trustee of the Merrimack County Savings Bank at this time. 
He has been a director of the Mechanicks National Bank from 
its organization, and is now its president. January 11, 1879, 
he was elected to fill the vacancy in the board of directors of 
the Concord Railroad, caused by the death of Ouslow Stearns, 





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and has since been closely connected with its system of roads. 
In November, 1SS4, he was chosen councillor for the second 
district, and is now (1SS6) in otfice. 

This is a brief but honorable record of one whose life has 
been devoted to industries and enterprises which are the source 
of general prosperity. He married Myra Tilton, daughter of 
Ira Elliott, of Sanbornton. 19 January. 1S61. A son, Henry 
Ames, was born 19 October, 1S64. 



WILLIAM SMITH KIMBALL. 

William Smith Kimball, of Rochester. N. Y., was born in 
Boscawen, 30 March, 1S37. His father. Colonel William M. 
Kimball, was born in Canterbury. 4 Dec. iSoS. and tlied in 
^Minneapolis, Mitin., 5 Oct., 1SS4. The father was for many 
years successfully connected with manufacturing interests in 
New Hampshire and Massachusetts ; was a quartermaster in 
the United States army in the civil war, serving in General 
Sibley's expedition against the Sioux Indians, and afterwards 
was an agent of the treasury department of the general govern- 
ment for superintending the erection and repair of public build- 
ings. The mother of the subject of this sketch was, before mar- 
riage. Miss Lucy Jane, daughter of Reuben and Judith (Hall) 
Johnson; was married S Jan., 1S35, and '^ living in Minne- 
apolis. 

From his parents the son inherited strength of mind, active 
and industrious habits, and valuable Xew England traits of 
character, that go far in laying the foundation for success and 
usefulness in after-life. He was educated in the public schools 
of Lawrence. Mass., Prof. Hildreth's academy in Derrv. and 
the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N. Y.. qualifying 
himself in the latter for the profession of mechanical engineer. 
7 Oct., 1S5S, he was married to Miss Marion Elizabeth, daugh- 
ter of the late Hon. Rufus Keeler, of Rochester, which citv has 
since been his home. In iS62-'63 he was master mechanic of 
the United States naval machine works at Port Royal, S. C. 
Subsequently he entered into business in Rochester as the head 
of the firm of W. S. Kimball «& Co., tobacco manufacturers. 



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His energy, enterprise, and marked executive ability soon made 
the establishment one of the most extensive of the kind in the 
United .States. It now employs more than a thousand per- 
sons, v^^hile its productions are widely celebrated in America 
and foreign countries. The firm had a contract for supplying 
tobacco and cigarettes for the French government. 

Mr. Kimball's business capacity has gained him large wealth, 
which he dispenses with a most liberal hand. His home is one 
of the finest in the state, no expense having been spared to ren- 
der it beautiful with embellishments, rare books, paintings, and 
other works of art. Mr. Kimball's elder son, Harold Chand- 
ler, possessing preeminent talent for music, the father has placed 
in his residence an organ of great power and brilliancy, built 
by the celebrated Roosevelt of New York city, having 2,350 
pipes. Some of the stops were made in Paris. Connected with 
Mr. Kimball's mansion are extensive grounds and floral gar- 
dens, whose fame is known throughout the country. His col- 
lection of orchids is the third largest in America, while in the 
rarity and great value of some of the specimens it is second to 
none in the United States. 

In financial circles he has an eminent and well deserved rank. 
He is an oflScer in numerous corporations, including that of di- 
rector in the Commercial National Bank, and trustee in the 
Rochester Savings-Bank. 

In civil affairs he has no aspiration for preferment, and has 
many times refused the use of his name as a candidate for 
political offices. In religious belief, he is a Presbyterian. As a 
citizen, he is public-spirited, generous, and exceedingly popular, 
while in social life he has a host of true and appreciative 
friends. Of commanding figure and fine personal presence, his 
frank and manly countenance reflects the virtues and powers 
that have enabled him to achieve so great a measure of success. 

His first wife having died, he married, second. Miss Laura 
Page, daughter of the late David Mitchell, of Rochester, by 
whom he has had two children, Cecilia and Ernest. Mr. Kim- 
ball is a second cousin of Hon. John Kimball, ex-mayor of Con- 
cord, and of Hon. Benjamin A. Kimball, of that city, a member 
of the governor's council, and has many other relatives and 
friends in New Hampshire. 



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ARTHUR LITTLE. 

Arthur Little, son of Simeon B. Little, was born in the house 
now occupied by Sherman Little, in Webster, 24 May, 1837. 
His early years were passed on the farm, with attendance at the 
district school during the brief terms of summer and winter. 
He became a student at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, 
where he fitted for college, graduating from that institution in 
1856. He entered Dartmouth the same year, and graduated 
from that institution in 1861. His twin brother Luther fitted 
for college at the same institution, entering college a year later, 
but died 19 July, 1858. 

While in college, Arthur Little manifested qualities of char- 
acter which won the respect of his fellow-students, and the high 
esteem of the officers of the institution. The training of his 
early years, the sterling integrity, the geniality of his disposi- 
tion, made him a universal favorite. While in college, he de- 
cided to prepare for the ministry. Possibly the death of his 
brother may have given direction to his choice of a profession, 
and intensified his purpose. 

He engaged in academical work in 1861, in Thetford and 
Black River academies, Vermont, entering Andover Theologi- 
cal Seminary the following winter, and Princeton, N. J., 1862. 
He was ordained as a minister of the gospel 16 March, 1863, in 
the Congregational meeting-house, Webster, and three days 
later received his commission as chaplain of the First Vermont 
heavy artillery. The regiment was detached for garrison duty 
at Washington. He was married to Laura Elizabeth Frost, of 
Thetford, Vt., 15 August, 1863, in the Church of the Epiphany, 
Washington, D. C. The regiment performed garrison duty 
till May, 1864, when it joined the army of the Potomac at 
Spottsylvania, becoming engaged soon after its arrival upon the 
ground. From Spottsylvania to Petersburg, through the Shen- 
andoah valley campaign, in 1865, to the final scene at Appo- 
mattox, where the rebel army surrendered, the chaplain was 
with the regiment, performing arduous service as nurse, preach- 
er, minister, and consolator. This service brought him in con- 
tact with men from every walk in life. 

It was a preparatory school of a high order for his life-work. 



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He was mustered out 4 July, 1S65, returning at once to Ando- 
ver seminary to continue his theological studies. On 3 January, 
1S66, he was installed pastor of the Presbyterian church in 
Bedford, N. H., and accepted the pastorate of the Congrega- 
tional church in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, 3 November, 1S68, 
where he remained ten years, till called to the pastorate of the 
New England church, Chicago, 26 December, 1S77. It was a 
ministry marked with preeminent success, attended by large 
additions to the church. 

During the years of his pastorates he has been called upon to 
occupy responsible and honorable positions, — as moderator of 
the Wisconsin Congregational and Presbyterian Convention, 
the Illinois State Association, and the National Council of Con- 
gregational churches held in Concord, N. H., 1SS3. With a 
commanding presence, a clear, resonant voice, an intimate ac- 
quaintance with parliamentary rules, and that keen tact wliich 
waits an opportunity in the despatch of business, he has but 
few equals as a presiding officer. 

On Sunday, 21 January, 1SS3, he suffered a bereavement in 
the sudden and unexpected death of Mrs. Little. The following 
summer was spent in Europe. He was present at the meeting 
of the Congregational Union of England and Wales, as repre- 
sentative of the Congregational church of the United States. 
He has delivered many addresses before colleges, universities, 
and conventions. He is deeply interested in the New West 
commission, which has in view the education of the people of 
the territories, and has been elected president of the Chicago 
Congregational Club for 18S6. He has one child — a daughter, 
May Brant Little, born 19 June, 1S67. He received the degree 
of Doctor of Divinity from Dartmouth college, iSSo. 

Occupying one of the prominent pulpits of the country, he 
is called upon for much service outside of his pastoral work, 
which is ever freely rendered, with no expectation of reward 
except that which comes from a consciousness of duty per- 
formed. He finds pleasure in expressing his high sense of ob- 
ligation, especially to the long line of ancestr}- which has al- 
ways been on the side of righteousness. His life-work is ever 
before him, and to its accomplishment he directs every faculty. 







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EPHRAIM PLUMMER. 

The ancestors ofEphraim Plummer came from England in 
1663, and settled in Newbury, Mass. His grandfather, Bit- 
field Plummer, one of the early settlers of Boscawen, married 
Priscilla Richardson, of Chester, October, 1769. He was a 
signer of the people's declaration of independence before that 
of the continental congress was issued, and upon the evacuation 
of Long Island by General Washington responded to the call 
for additional troops, and served for a time in the Continental 
army. His son Ephraim was born 1771, married Rachel 
Choate Cogswell, 31 May, 1792, lived on the homestead in Bos- 
cawen, and died 6 May, 1793, three months before the birth of 
his son Ephraim, the subject of the present sketch, who was 
born 29 August, 1793. 

The mother ofEphraim was a native of Essex, Mass., rela- 
tive of Rufus Choate, a woman of rare qualities of character, 
of discriminating mind, and marked ability. To the future of 
her only child she bent all her energies. With the heritage of 
toil, the son had the benefit of a better education than sometimes 
falls to the lot of boys in his contfition. The years of his child- 
hood were uneventful, so too the earlier years of manhood, 
only as the external influences and processes of thought devel- 
oped the man of a logical turn of mind, a sincere respecter of 
law, loyal to his convictions, and of undoubted integritv. He 
was a person of quick sensibilities, frank and hospitable. lie 
gave with liberal lianil for school and church. Unassuming, 
he never desired place or influence in public aflairs. His 
time was devoted to the cultivation of the farm. 

He married Lucy, daughter of Henry Gerrish, of Boscawen, 
n Jan., 1S21, who was the etiicient coimterpart to whatever 
of success that came to him. He died 20 July, 1S72. 

Children . 

Polly Little, b. 23 November, 1821, m. Henry L. Dodge, 17 June, 
1 84 1 . 
Abiel Gerrish, b. 24 May, 1S24, m. Kate Baughman, 5 June, 1855. 
Prisfilla Parsons, b. 28 May, 1826, m. Luther Gage, 2 March, 1859. 
Helen Elizabeth, b. 26 March, 1834. 
Frances Ann, b. iS November, 1837, m. Albert Reed, 5 June, 1864. 



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HENRY PEARSON ROLFE. 

Henry Pearson Rolfe was born in Boscawen, February 13, 
1S31. His father, Benjamin Rolfe, was also a native of Bos- 
cawen. His grandparents on his father's side, Benjamin and 
Lydia Pierson Rolfe, came from Newbury, Mass., immediate- 
ly after the close of the French war, and settled on the frontier 
in Boscawen, near the Salisbury line. 

His mother, Margaret Searle Rolfe. was the daughter of Rev. 
Jonathan Searle, the lirst settled minister of Salisbury. His 
grandmother, on the maternal side, was the daughter of Jethro 
Sanborn, a sea-captain, of Sandown, who, to feed our suflering 
soldiers at Valley Forge, gave a large share of his fortune in 
exchange for depreciated Continental money, which became 
worthless, and for which the government never made any re- 
turn to him or to his heirs. Several thousand dollars of this 
irredeemable scrip came into the possession of the mother of 
the subject of this sketch, Margaret Searle. 

The mother of Mr. Rolfe and Daniel Webster were both 
pupils of Master Tappan, and for a time were schoolmates. 
She graduated from Atkinson academy when it was in charge 
of the then famous Prof. Vose, and after that was a teacher for 
nine years. She was teaching in Mr. Webster's school-district 
when he leturned from his school in Fryeburg. A friendship 
sprang up between them, and she loved to rehearse, in later 
years, to her children, how Webster unfolded to her all his 
struggles and ambitions, and his fixed purpose never to be guil- 
ty of an unworthy act. 

Mr. Rolfe was raised on a farm, and his parents being poor, 
his education, till his tenth year, was limited to six months 
yearly in the district school. From ten to sixteen he was al- 
lowed only three months of schooling, during the winter terms. 
The winter of his sixteenth and seventeenth year he spent in 
the woods with his father, driving a lumber team. From that 
time till he was twenty years of age, he enjoyed only nineteen 
weeks of schooling, — five at Franklin and fourteen at Salisbury 
academy. 

Such privileges seem scanty in our day, and yet such were 
his powers of acquisition that at eighteen we find young Rolfe 



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teaching his first district school, an employment which he fol- 
lowed for nine successive winters with unvarying and ever- 
growing success. 

When nineteen, the family moved to Hill, in this state. In 
1S41, when twenty years of age, he began his preparation for 
college at New Hampton. He spent three years in the pre- 
paratory course, and entered Dartmouth college in 1S44. Being 
obliged to depend upon his own efforts to secure the necessary 
means to defray the expense of his education, he taught school 
during the winters of his preparatory and collegiate courses. 
For several successive seasons he was employed upon Cape 
Cod, but during his sophomore and junior years he taught for 
five months each year at Dartmouth, Mass., and three months 
of his senior year in the same school. 

When in attendance upon the college, !Mr. Rolfe was excep- 
tionally punctual in the discharge of all his duties. During his 
senior year he was never absent from a recitation, lecture, or 
other exercise. He asked for no excuse, and met every requi- 
sition. Such a record is unusual in college classes, and perhaps 
stood alone in his own. Mr. Rolfe's student-life was eminently 
successful, both in the acquisition of mental discipline and 
scholarly attainments. In 1S4S he graduated from Dartmouth 
with the highest respect of the faculty and the warmest attach- 
ment of his classmates. 

Although compelled to be absent, teaching, five months dur- 
ing the first three years of his collegiate course, upon his gradu- 
ation he received this special commendation from the president 
of the institution : 

" Dartmouth College, July 25, 1848. 

" This may certify that Mr. Henry P. Rolfe is a graduate of the present year 
at this college. He is a highly respected student. His course has been re- 
markably correct and e.xemplary. It gives me pleasure to commend him as a 
good scholar and an upright man. He is a well qualified teacher, and worthy 
of the confidence and patronage of any who may have occasion for his ser- 
vices." 

After a few weeks of rest he entered the law-oftice of Hon. 
Asa Fowler, of Concord, on the 21st of September, and. after 
two years and a half of study, was admitted to the bar in May, 
185 1. On admission to the bar he immediately opened an office 



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in Concord, and step by step advanced in professional strength 
and standing, till, in 1869, he was appointed United States 
attorney for the district of New Hampshire by President Grant, 
and discharged the responsible and exacting duties of the office 
vigorously, ably, and conscientiously for five years. 

During the years 1852 and 1S53 he was a member of the 
board of education for Concord, and served as chairman of the 
board the last year. He was also elected as a Democrat to rep- 
resent the town in the legislature of 1853. He was again sent 
to the legislature, as a Republican, to represent Ward 5 in the 
city of Concord, during the stormy years of 1863 and 1864. 
This was during the period of war, when the government 
called for the services of its ablest and most trusted citizens. 

In 1S59 and 1S60 he was the Democratic candidate for state 
senator from his district, and during the latter was candidate 
for presidential elector for the same party on the Douglas ticket. 
In 1 866 he was appointed postmaster of Concord by Andrew 
Johnson, but his commission was withheld because he refused 
to assist in electing Democrats to congress. 

In 1878, Gov. Prescott made Mr. Rolfe a member of the com- 
mission to take testimony, and report to the legislature what 
legislation was necessary to protect the citizens in the vicinity 
of Lake Winnipiseogee against the encroachments of the Lake 
Company. An investigation was had, and a report made by the 
commission ; and where constant complaint had been made, not 
a murmur of dissatisfaction has since been heard. 

This is no ordinary record, and is the evidence of solid merit. 
Mr. Rolfe has been a patient student, a sound lawyer, and a 
strong advocate. A good cause is safe in his hands, if a suit at 
law can be said to be safe in any hands. He has often been 
called to speak before assemblies of his fellow-citizens, political 
and otherwise. On such occasions he always impresses his 
hearers with the extent and accuracy of his information, and 
with his strong and sterling good sense. Mr. Rolfe believes 
what he says, and says what he believes. His friendships are 
strong, and he is slow to see fiuilts in those whom he loves. 

On the 22d of November, 1853. he married Mary Rebecca 
Sherburn, daughter of Robert H. Sherburn, of Concord, by 
whom he has had five children, as follows : 



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1. Marshall Potter Rolfe, b. 29 September, 1854; d. 6 August, 1862. 

2. Margarett Florence, b. 12 January, 1S5S ; d. 2 May, 185S. 

3. Henrietta Maria, b. 17 January, 1861 ; d. 22 September, 1862. 

4. Robert Henry, b. 16 October, 1S63. 

5. George Hamilton, b. 24 December, 1866. 

The fourth child, Robert Henry, is now a graduate of Dart- 
mouth college, class of 1SS4; and George Hamilton, a lad of 
eighteen, is pursuing his studies at the Holderness School for 
Boys, in Holderness, N. H. 

In the spring of 1SS2, Mr. Rolfe nearly lost his life from the 
kick of a vicious horse. The result of this terrible accident has 
been the loss of his right eye and a complete prostration of his 
nervous system, from which he has been slowly recovering. 
He has not yet regained his former vigor and elasticity, but the 
original force of his constitution and the sleepless care of his 
most estimable wife are gradually bringing him back to his pro- 
fessional duties and power. He is resuming his practice, which 
at the time of his injury was quite lucrative. 

This brief sketch of life and character has been drawn by an 
impartial though friendly hand, and it gives us no ordinary 
man. Mr. Rolfe is a man of large frame and unusual gifts of 
mind. He has led an active, successful life, but, in the judg- 
ment of the writer, has never yet brought the full strength of his 
faculties into action. He has a reserve of power which it is 
hoped the future may give him an opportunity to use. 



PUBLICATION OF PROCEEDINGS. 



The committee appointed to prepare and publish the pro- 
ceedings of the celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anni- 
versary of the settlement of the town of Boscavven, met at the 
call of the president, Isaac K. Gage, Esq., at his office in Pena- 
cook, in Boscawen, Nov. 30, 1SS3. There were present 
Messrs. Isaac K. Gage, John Kimball, Benj. A. Kimball, 
Nathaniel S. Webster, Charles H. Amsden, Charles C. Coffin, 
Henry H. Gerrish, Dr. E. E. Graves, and J. C Pearson. 

J. C. Pearson was cliosen secretary. 

Voted, To publish as soon as may be a full and complete 
record of the proceedings at the anniversary, adding such other 
matter as may be necessary to complete the history of the town 
to the present time. Charles C. Coffin was selected to edit 
the work. 

Voted. That Benjamin A. Kimball be a committee on illus- 
trations for the book. 

I'oted, That John Kimball and Isaac K. Gage be a commit- 
tee to see to the printing and binding of the book. 

Agreed, To mutually share any deficiency, should such occur, 
which may be found to exist after all the copies of the book are 
sold that can be. 

Voted, To meet again at the call of the chair. 

Adjourned. 

J. C. PEARSON, Secretary. 
Boscawen, Nov. 30. 1SS3. 



AGREEMENT. 



Whereas, a history of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary 
of the settlement of the town of Boscawen, in the state of New 
Hampshire, is about to be pubHshed by Isaac K. Gage and 
others, a committee selected for that purpose ; and 

Whereas^ there may be a deficiency after the published vol- 
umes shall be disposed of; — 

Therefore the undersigned hereby agree to pay any sum or 
sums that may be unprovided for after the aforesaid published 
volumes shall be sold or disposed of; and to this agi'eement 
the undersigned pledge themselves, each to the other. 
(Signed) 

Isaac K. Gage. 
John Kimball. 
Charles C. Coffin. 
N. S. Webster. 
B. 
H. 

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Boscawen, N. H. 



A. Kimball. 

H. Gerrish. 
C. Pearson. 

E. Graves. 
Charles H. Amsden. 
J. Eastman Pecker. 

Nov. 30, 1S83. 



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